How Property Managers Can Yield Real Estate Investors More Money

July 24, 2010 by Clint
Filed under: Investing 

Most of us don’t invest in real estate because we enjoy taking care of properties we don’t live in. We invest in real estate because we see just how valuable of a long term investment it can be. Even if a property doesn’t appreciation in value, a good real estate investment can cash flow and will eventually have a lot of equity.

Most first time rental property investers never consider property management as a way too net more money. In most cases they don’t, but having a good property management company can actually provide more annual net rental income, and can help to maintain the value of your real estate investment.

One Logan property management company that embraces these principles is Catalyst. This company sets itself apart by focusing on effective online advertisement and by maintaining and improving the properties it manages.

When Catalyst gets a 30 day move out notice, they immidiately begin their online marketing campaign to attract the next renter. They stage the property, and then take video and multiple pictures of every room. These videos, and pictures are made available on dozens of top websites that offer Logan homes for rent. This huge online presence gives them more potential renters, than it has rentals available. By having more potential renters than properties for rent, the property management company can increase rents, pick from the best tenants, and minimize vacancy.

Every spring and fall the property management company performs maintenance checks where they go over everything in the house. These checks help to keep the property in top notch ready to go condition all the time. During the bi-annual maintenance checks, the property management companies are able to fix most small problems before they become costly repairs.

By minimizing losses, good property management companies are able to save their clients more money than they actually spend on the property management services. Using these methods, the property managers actually help their clients to net more money.

 

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