Management & Maintenance

This department of Rental Housing Journal is your source for property management and maintenance information. Whether you’re an independent landlord, portfolio manager, on-site community manager, leasing agent or apartment maintenance professional, the site is dedicated to bringing tips, best practices and information to help make your job easier and keep you up to date and educated.

4 Ways Property Managers And Tenants Can Improve Apartment Air Quality

4 Ways Property Managers And Tenants Can Improve Apartment Air Quality

Property managers and tenants can improve apartment air quality by learning about the different types of indoor pollutants and practices which can improve air quality. The maintenance checkup this week provided by Keepe focuses apartment...

Segmented Property Management Training Fits Better In A Busy Multifamily Professional’s Day

The Grace Hill training tip of the week to help owners, landlords and property managers with online property management training information. Let’s break it down.  By Ellen Clark Think for a moment about all the ways...

Try An Overview – Such As One On Fair Housing – In Your Next...

Grace Hill training tip of the week to help landlords and property managers with online property management training information By Ellen Clark How often do you go on a long road trip without pulling up a navigation...

3 Low-Cost Incentives To Gain Property Management Training Completion

This week we start a regular multifamily training tip of the week from the folks at Grace Hill to help landlords and property managers with online property management training information to help increase competency...

My No.1 Mistake In Property Management

My No. 1 mistake in property management was not hearing about successes but hearing about failures. By Larry Arth Hearing about peoples failures is the fast track to learning. When you hear of and understand where people...

97 Percent Of Property Management Companies Have Experienced Fraud

A new report from Forrester Consulting shows that in the last two years alone 97% of property management decision makers have experienced fraud in the properties they manage. On top of that, 83 percent of...

Top 3 Training Needs For Property Managers

Training property managers and leasing agents in Fair Housing compliance issues continues to be a top issue in the multifamily housing industry, according to a new annual study. Compliance with Fair Housing to reduce risk...
Credit Reporting and the CARES Act

Portland May Propose Tenant Screening Rules On Criminal History, Credit

The Portland City Council may be asked to make changes in current rules applying to tenant screening rules and criminal background checks, credit checks or financial stability, according to reports. Willamette Week is reporting that...
3 tips to protect your rental property fence

How to Protect Your Rental Property’s Fence From Wind Damage

Rental property fence maintenance and repair can be an issue when big Summer storms hit so the maintenance checkup this week from Keepe focuses on rental property fences. If you own a rental in an...

No Fire Sprinklers:13 Dead, Nearly 500 Homeless From 4 Fires In 11 Days

A mother and her five children, ages 2 through 10, were killed in a fire at an extended-stay hotel in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on July 27, 2018 Several others were taken to the hospital with...