Maintenance / Repairs
Investment Properties: A Look into Different Foundations
If you own investment properties in Oklahoma, your number one focus is very likely minimizing your expenditures to maximize profits. One of the most crucial things you can do as a property owner is to ensure that the homes you purchase are structurally sound....
What Does a Property Manager Do? Property Management Duties and Responsibilities
If your own a rental unit and considering hiring a property manager to If you own a rental unit and considering hiring a property manager to manage the rental units. This article explains “What does a Property Management Company do?” and “Duties of Property Management...
Best Upgrades for Rental Property – Upgrades Tenants Love
It is said that, any kinds of rental friendly upgrades can make investors get their biggest return on investment. Your rental property can have various kinds of issues. Fixing your cracked foundation, Broken windows, best carpet for rental property, best flooring and...
Can a Landlord Make a Tenant Pay for Repairs?
A tenant is responsible for making all repairs to a property. But is that realistic? I recall leasing an apartment that needed work to some young people when I was first starting as a landlord. The lease required them to maintain the apartment and to make it ready for...
Spotting Foundation Crack for OKC Rental Properties
When I first started buying rental properties, a realtor told me about a property that was listed so cheaply it sounded too good to be true. I rushed to the property so that I could get my offer in first. It did turn out to be to good to be true. The house had a...
Keeping the Weather out of Your OKC Rental Property
Oklahoma is famous for it's weather. Severe weather. Heavy rains. Blazing heat. Ice and snow. Here are some winter reminders for tenants to protect house from bad weather. If there is one thing that you don't want to neglect about your rental it's the exterior shell. ...
How to Reduce your Oklahoma City Rental Property Maintenance Costs?
When your maintenance costs are properly reduced you can set a good rent price for it so that you will be in a maximum benefit as much as possible. So in this article, I will tell you how to reduce your maintenance cost. It's said that landlords should estimate...
Owners with older Central Heat and Air Conditioning Systems: What you need to know
If you own a home built in 1978, that home is now forty-years old. If the central heat and air system has not be replaced, it is also forty-years old. According to http://ceedirectory.org/site/302/Air-Conditioning-and-Heat-Pump-Efficiency-101, the average...
How to Find and Keep Good OKC Maintenance People and Handymen
Find and keeping good maintenance personnel is a big challenge, even for okc property management companies. In this article, I present Five tips for finding and keeping good maintenance people. Let's face it, you need good help. If you don't have someone...
A Property Manager Can Never Get too Attached to an Oklahoma City Contractor
You might remember the story of the Sirens. Taken from Greek Mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous bird-women who lured sailors into the sea with their enchanting singing and music. Odysseus wanted to hear the song of the Sirens, so he sailed to them ordering his...