So, many blogs have been advocating being more pet friendly in your rentals, but what about livestock?
If you’ve got images of cows running through the courtyard of your apartment complex- you’ve got a great imagination and are taking it a little too far. What I am talking about is a recent trend that’s got some people crowing with delight and others squawking.
The Cigna Insurance website offers the above chart to help you better understand these changes and the associated penalties. They also offer several informative PDFs for further reading.
It’s recently come to our attention that an individual(s) believed to be in the Czech Republic (probably looking something like the guy on the left) is luring tenants, primarily out of Canada, to attractive rental properties at great rental rates, only to be scammed into wiring funds to an overseas bank account. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, it’s elaborate, and it’s...
We’re always happy to share our vision and what we’re doing with others. Recently, Jacob Thomason met with All Property Management to discuss the RentPost platform and how it can help property managers and landlords, alike. All Property Management did a quick write-up on the meeting and posted it on their blog. Feel free to have a read.
Each year, the National Fair Housing Alliance compiles a report outlining the issues of that year. The 2013 Fair Housing Trends Report has just come out and indicates that complaints are actually up by about 5%. In 2012, the report shows that there were about 28, 518 complaints total. Additionally, this report does include those that were investigated by the US Department of Housing and Urban...
The US Census Bureau reported that the US population went up by about 4% in the years between 2006-2011. During that time, though, there was only a 3% increase in households- this broke down to a 2% for family households, but a 5% growth in non-related households. That would seem to indicate that roommates are a growing section of the market. This definitely has some bearing on the recent boom in...
Uncertainties in the market are not causing issue with builder confidence, but also, not increasing it, the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) index reveals. This same market uncertainty has been creating tensions with both builders and buyers for some time now, but recently has remained roughly the same. As of last month, the trend was downwardly revised at a level of 54.
According to Jones Lang LaSalle, or JLL, sales volumes on multifamily housing in the United States shot up about 47% from the months of July to September after a dragging second quarter. Sales volumes on multifamily housing hit about 25 billion dollars during that time. Researchers cite the housing hangover, population growth in the empty nesters and Echo Boomers, and the rise in households...
We’re happy to announce the latest update to the RentPost system. Just this past week we’ve been pushing out a series of releases around two different systems. The first is our email system. We’ve made some infrastructure improvements to how email is handled and delivered through RentPost. Our hope is that this will continue to increase our deliverability rate. We...
According to Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey conducted from July 22, 2013 through Aug. 1, 2013 by Pulsenomics LLC, more than 100 economists, real estate experts, and investment and market strategies forecasted 6.7% annual gain in home values for 2013. This is higher than the earlier expected growth of 5.4%. Panelists said the expected median U.S. home values would rise to an average of...