How to Create Ohana in Your Property Management Business?
Just like the monarch butterflies return to Monterey, CA annually I have an annual trip of my own to Kauai, Hawaii each May. What is it about Hawaii that keeps me returning? For me [...]
How Can Fair Housing Support Property Management Businesses?
Any professional property manager knows about Fair Housing and has taken numerous classes or webinars on it. Basically, Fair Housing is about not discriminating against people who are applying for housing. I would like [...]
How Competition Leads to Success in Property Management
In professional property management trade groups such as NARPM or IREM we have always been of the mind that we aren’t competitors we are colleagues. So, why is the idea of being competitors not [...]
Follow Your Heart – 3 Soft Skills for Property Management Success
To be successful in business you need to have systems in place, a strong operational foundation and know your numbers. Most business is dominated by the logical side of our brain. But with anything [...]
Property Managers Prepare for Growth in 2023
I became a property management professional in 2005 after leaving the mortgage industry which had become reckless, and I didn’t want to be associated with it. Then the crash came in 2009. The real [...]
Property Management 2022 – A Year in Review
Each year I am shocked how quickly time flies. 4th of July triggers that halfway point and a bit of a panic knowing the next 6 months will be a fast and furious race [...]
Don’t Be A Turkey: How Property Managers Can Give Thanks
Property Management is a difficult business to thrive in because there are so many moving parts and different clients to serve from the property owner to the tenant to the vendors that support you. [...]
Time to Change our Clocks – What Else Needs Change?
As a property management business owner or team member change in the industry is happening at lightning speed. Yet, the property management cycle is the same. How we perform those tasks is what is [...]
Labor Day Celebrating Property Management Milestones, Goals and Accomplishments
For many Labor Day is a three-day weekend. For others it is about labor unions, and employee rights. In Europe it is a day of peaceful protests and parades. So, what does Labor Day [...]
