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Your Northern VA Rental — Guaranteed With Our 29-Day Rental Guarantee
Any experienced landlord will tell you that the worst thing that can happen is for a rental property to sit vacant. Just because no one is paying the rent doesn’t mean that the mortgage, utilities, and maintenance aren’t still due!
Worse, if you’re trying to rent the house on your own, you’re probably spending even more money on advertisements for every day your property sits empty. On top of that, you have to spend so much time touring the property with applicants, taking thei
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Rent Your Northern Virginia Home (& Do It Safely).
It’s as important for you, the landlord, as it is for the tenant to keep your rental home safe, and in tip-top condition. Taking the necessary steps to ensure everyone’s security and well being can help protect you from legal issues, and may even help ensure the value of your investment.
Consider the following tips when renting out your northern VA home.
- Ensure that the house/building number can be seen clearly from the street. In the event of an
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Private Equity Firms & Property Management: A Match Made in Heaven, or Doomed to Failure?
Hey northern Virginia landlords —
There's new competition on the rental market block, and it may not be who you think.
Over the last couple of years, private equity firms and hedge funds have been building what can be called nothing less than a real estate empire. They're buying houses in Phoenix, and in Los Angeles; in Atlanta, and in Chicago; and in Arlington and Alexandria and Fairfax, too! All in all, Wall St
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Advanced Rent Program Takes the Worry Out of Rent Collection in Northern Virginia
PRESS RELEASE
July 22, 2015 — Fairfax, Virginia
No northern Virginia landlord should be forced to depend on his tenants' rent check in order to pay the mortgage on time, and it's for that reason that the Real Property Management pros are excited to launch an exclusive Landlords' Advanced Rental Payment Program.
"Landlords in northern Virginia have enough to worry about, from dealing with maint
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Don’t Sell; Rent Your Fairfax VA Home
It’s time to move.
Your house in Fairfax is great and all, but certain circumstances have necessitated that you make a move to southern Virginia, or Georgia, or California — i.e., somewhere not here.
To sell the Fairfax house is the logical thing to do.
So you think. Sure, selling is the popular option, but have you considered renting out your home in northern Virginia? It’s a big decision, to sell or to r
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Millennials Are Renting Their Northern Virginia Homes, Not Buying Them — At Least Not Yet
The so-called Millennial generation is all about bucking tradition. They’re marrying later. They’re all in favor of nap rooms and ping pong tables in the office.
And they’re renting houses and apartments instead of buying them.
That’s not to say they don’t want to purchase a single-family home eventually:
A survey report issued by the National Association of Home Builders in January of this year showed that as many as 75 percent of those young Americans born into Generation Y
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Washington DC First Quarter 2015 Apartment Research Report Reveals Vigorous Rental Demand in the Region
According to the recently conducted Washington DC Apartment Research Report for First Quarter 2015, high demand for rental property in the Washington DC metropolitan area has led to the highest number of apartments in more than a decade.
Vigorous rental demand in the metro core drove developers to deliver the h
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What is landlord insurance? And do you need it in northern Virginia?
In short:
Yes, you need landlord insurance.
But what is it, and why do you need it?
Landlord insurance covers property owners renting out one or more residential homes, apartments, or condos. Landlording is risky business, and you’ll need protection from any, and all financial losses that occur as a result of fire, break-in, severe weather and other such damages to your rental property. Landlords in northern Virginia can also get insurance to help cover loss of income in the event th
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Beware the Ides of… Rental Horrors Could Happen to You!
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Beware the [day after] the ides of March.
No, we don't mean the George Clooney / Ryan Gosling, but March
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Should I Choose the Stock Market, Or Real Estate Investment? Northern Virginia’s Property Management Pros Have the Answer.
Happy birthday!
Not your birthday?
Happy windfall then!
You’ve suddenly come into a large sum of money, and you know enough to know it wouldn’t be wise to spend it all. Sure, you’ll spend a little; maybe take a few friends on an all-expenses paid vacation out of the winter wonderland that is Washington DC; eliminate some debt; and with the rest, make a few smart investments.
But the thing is, you’re not sure if you should invest in the stock market, or in real estate. Each path to be
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