Category: Real Estate
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I am a landlord, I am happy my tenant was able to pay the rent
I am a landlord and I am so happy I survived Covid. I was afraid that my tenant was not going to pay the rent, I would be stuck paying municipal taxes, insurance, condos fees, school taxes, maintenance, and the mortgage without having any revenue from my property to pay for all those expenses. Tenants…
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Rents are going up. Don’t blame the landlord, blame the city
The real estate market, like most markets, works on supply and demand. If there is more demand than supply, prices go up; if there is more supply than demand, prices go down. There is no legislation that can change the laws of economics, the law of supply and demand. There is no global conspiracy of…
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Tips for Being the Best Airbnb Host
If you are looking for ways to make money with your home or other property that you have, then you have a number of possibilities. You could rent it out as a whole, or rent out a spare room that you have, using a site like Airbnb. This is growing and growing in popularity, and…
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A Few Fundamentals Tenant Look for in a Rental Home
The task of renting out a home is not always easy. If you’re going to find a tenant quickly and efficiently, you want to make sure that you’re satisfying their needs and offering them what they need most. Getting that right and making sure that the fundamentals in place will have a big influence on…
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Should You Be Concerned If You Live In a High Rise Building?
On June 24, 2021, the Champlain Towers South building, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Miami, Florida, partially collapsed. The death count is not finished yet, but it will easily surpass 100 people. The suspected cause of the collapse is the long-term degradation of reinforced concrete support structures. My mother is at risk My mother lives…
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Tips and Tricks for Removing Pests, Weeds and More this Spring
in Real EstateRemoving All Those Yard and Lawn Pests This Spring We’ve all been spending more and more time at home lately, and as the weather begins to warm and summer looms on the horizon, we’re all looking forward to spending a lot of time outside. You may have been, like so many of us, working diligently…