How to Keep Your Tenants Happy AND Your Pocketbook Full

Keeping your tenants happy is easy if you’re willing to spend, spend, spend in their behalf. But, you can have your cake (keeping your tenants happy) and eat it too (without taking a hit to your profit margins) when you enlist help from Specialized RPM and their Arlington property management expertise.

Hiring property managers lets you have your cake and eat it too through their proactive management. Often when property owners manage their own properties, the work can become overwhelming and management becomes a reactionary process instead of proactive. So, you find yourself doing expensive repairs instead of maintenance and even occasionally only getting to the repairs after tenants have repeatedly asked for them.

Having Arlington property managers on your side gives you an extra set of eyes and pair of hands (not to mention their entire network of deals) that will allow you to get back on top of caring for your tenants in a way that makes them happy and keeps your pocketbook happy as well. Specialized RPM will help perform seasonal maintenance and inspections, offer group buying discounts on supplies and repair work, manage the monies with precision, and take away legal stresses. You’ll find you have fewer and shorter vacancies and fewer and cheaper repairs.

Arlington property management with Specialized RPM is definitely the way to go to have your cake and eat it too! Call today and see what they can do for you. Learn more about their full range of services at http://www.specializedrpm.com/

Protecting Your Properties While Tenants are on Vacation

According to FBI calculations, there are over two and a half million home break-ins annually, which come out to a break-in every 13 seconds. Your tenants may feel that simply locking the door when they head out for a trip is enough to keep their belongings and your property safe. Time and time again, however, this is proven to not be the case, and by taking a few simple safety measure in addition to locking your door, a property can become much more secure. Here are some tips from your leading Fort Worth property management, Specialized RPM.

1.    Invest in a Security System: It may cost a bit, but it’s well worth the comfort and protection. And, it can be pennies compared to the cost, frustrations, and personal violations of a home burglary.

2.    Be Smart with Social Media: Posting before and during a vacation about your absence can be an advertisement to burglars that your property is open for business. Keep this type of information to a minimum.

3.    Power Down: Everyone thinks of turning off the lights and maybe even unplugging a few appliances before taking a long trip, but a less common step is turning down the water heater. This can also save you money.

4.    Don’t Leave a Key: Burglars will often check under the front mat and the flower pots for a key. Don’t leave a hidden key because chances are they will find it. Instead, give a key to a trusted friend or neighbor to check on your house or hold a backup for you.

5.    Stop the Presses and Hold the Mail: Allowing newspapers and mail to pile up is another declaration to anyone driving by that you're not home.

Your tenants have a vested interest in keeping your property safe while they’re away since that also means keeping their belongings safe. Sharing these tips as well as encouraging them to notify their Fort Worth property management team that they are away will help protect everyone. When you know of a vacationing tenant, you can have eyes and ears on the grounds regularly to watch out for suspicious activities.

Specialized Real Property Management has over 25 years of experience in the Fort Worth property management business. Let them put their team with their proven process to work for you today. Learn more about their full line of management services at http://www.specializedrpm.com/

Did You Get the Message?: Communicating with Your Tenants

Good communication is priceless when it comes to Fort Worth property management. Specialized RPM can help you achieve greater communication with your tenants. Here are a few things a property management company can do for you:

●     Emotionless Communication

Interactions with tenants should be professional and respectful and not emotionally charged. A third party group can help provide this emotional buffer.

●     Plenty of Communication

It’s nearly impossible to over communicate in this industry. Your tenants should hear from you often and through multiple channels (email, calls, mail). Communication should flow freely both to and from tenants.

●     Local Communication

If you are not a local resident of the area in which your rental properties reside, consider hiring a local property manager who can provide experience and expertise surround that property market. This insider information can be an invaluable resource for communication and when making decisions surrounding the property.

●     Clear Communication

Most communication ends up as miscommunication. That’s why clear and regular communication of expectations is vital.

●     Documented Communication

Particularly when it comes to financial and legal matters, documented communication is the only way to protect your business. Oral and cyber communication just don’t hold up as well as good old fashion paper during times of conflict.

Maintaining good communication can often feel burdensome and overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be when you enlist the help of Fort Worth property managers. Contracting with Specialized RPM can be your first step to better communication with your tenants. Learn more about their full range of property management services at http://www.specializedrpm.com/

Spring Cleaning by Rental Property Management in Fort Worth, TX

There’s something about the refreshing breeze of a spring day after months of winter that gets people excited about cleaning more than any other time of the year. And, while “spring cleaning” is well known as a common activity for this time of year, that doesn’t necessarily mean you are one of those people who gets a kick out of cleaning. If cleaning already doesn’t interest you, cleaning the house you live in and the properties you rent can seem like a overwhelmingly massive undertaking.

Specialized RPM, the trusted property management company in Fort Worth, TX, can take this to-do-list off your hands. Spring cleaning for your rental units should include cleaning up after the winter months and tuning up in preparations for the summer months. Not only should you address a standard list of needs for each property, but tenants may have noticed areas of concern specific to their locations that should also make their way on your lists of things to address.

Here’s what spring cleaning looks like from Specialized RPM:

●     Clearing storm gutter build up

●     General safety inspections

●     Communication with residence on their perceived needs

●     Maintaining AC and furnace to avoid more expensive future repairs

Let Specialized RPM take these tasks off your list by giving them a call today while you kick back and enjoy that refreshing spring breeze. Or if you’ve procrastinated spring cleaning and find yourself battling the summer heat, Specialized will brave the heat in your behalf to help take care of these needs. Learn more about their full range of management services at http://www.specializedrpm.com/

Property Managers in Fort Worth, TX Are Pet Friendly

People love their pets. What does this mean for the rental community? Property managers in Fort Worth, TX worry about having pets in their rental units because of potential damage and increased maintenance with the unit. But with added pet premiums and fewer vacancy days, having a pet friendly rental option can actually be good for business.

Benefits of Pet-friendly Policies

Pets can be an important part of the family. The feelings people have for their pets can influence where they choose to live. When it comes to the choice of giving up this valued member of the family to live somewhere pets aren’t allowed or the choice of paying a little extra by way of pet fees to keep their animal with them, more often than not people will choose the fee. With 62% of Americans being pet owners, having policies against pets could mean losing this group as potential rentals.

Customized Policies

Companion Animal Renters Program (CARP) is a non-profit animal group under FIREPAW designed to support the development of individual pet programs for rental property owners. Property management in Fort Worth, TX must often recognize that while damage to the property is an added risk of allowing pets, that a customized plan could be suggested to meet all parties’ needs.

Specialized Real Property Management will work with you and your tenants to create an environment that helps everyone feel at home. Put their team to work for you.

Learn more about their proven processes and full range of services today at http://www.specializedrpm.com/