by Aborn Properties | Sep 6, 2016 | Owner Education
by Joi Walker, Senior Property Manager. This year at Aborn Properties, we are celebrating our 40th year in business. During that time, we have seen real estate wax and wane and the Bay area and Silicon Valley change dramatically. Throughout all 40 of these years, our...
by Aborn Properties | Aug 30, 2016 | Owner Education
By Gary Walker, owner and CVO. Once you have screened and selected a tenant, you need to pay attention to how you implement the lease and explain your expectations. This is an area that a lot of landlords pass by and then later wish they hadn’t. An alternate title to...
by Aborn Properties | Aug 23, 2016 | Owner Education
The process of selecting and notifying tenants is just as important as tenant screening. In a previous blog, we talked about screening. Today, we’re talking about how you should go about choosing your tenant and getting your lease signed. Selection Process The...
by Aborn Properties | Aug 16, 2016 | Owner Education
Proper tenant screening is crucial and it’s one of the areas that professional property managers can do better than individual landlords. We screen so many people that we have systems and processes in place that are designed to protect landlords and owners. You have...
by Aborn Properties | Aug 10, 2016 | Owner Education
Record keeping can be a bit of a challenge, but good documentation will help you stay organized and compliant as a landlord. Commit to doing contemporaneous record keeping, which means you record and track things as they happen. This makes keeping good records easy....
by Aborn Properties | Aug 2, 2016 | Owner Education
Taking care of maintenance and repairs efficiently is essential to retaining high quality tenants. You need to know what repairs are your responsibilities. Systems within the property are an owner’s responsibility unless the tenant has done something malicious or...