Property Management Blog

Guide to Vacation Rental Listing Optimization

Austin is a city in Texas that has become more and more popular for tourists over the last decade. Now, the city averages 30 million tourists annually.Because of this growth in popularity, some real estate investors may consider buying a vacation rental. However, they may not kno...

When to Hire an Airbnb Rental Management Company

There are now over six million Airbnb listings in over 100,000 cities in 190 different countries! Your Airbnb rental can become a great source of passive income. Without proper rental management, however, you could experience long-term vacancies.Before that happens, consider hiri...

5 Benefits of Hiring a Property Manager Instead of Doing it Yourself

While owning income property can bring with it financial rewards, the business aspect of being a landlord can take its toll on your time and mental health. Many landlords adopt a hands-on approach to all aspects of managing their rental properties, but they often find themselves ...

Six Tips to Wow Potential Renters with Property Staging

As Austin and the nation continue to rebound from the pandemic, the local real estate rental market is poised for growth. There are several positive developments happening in the area, right now, including the fact that Austin’s rental vacancy rate is less than half of the nati...

Improve Your Austin Rental Investment with These 4 Easy Upgrades

When a prospective tenant looks at your apartment or house for rent, they want to know at least three things: Will I be comfortable here? Will maintenance issues be taken care of quickly? Will I be safe? Making a few changes or improvements in your rental units can not only make ...

The Most Effective Austin Property Marketing Techniques

One of the keys to maximizing your cash flow as a landlord is to keep your vacancies down to an absolute minimum. There are a lot of factors to consider when planning a marketing strategy for attracting tenants, but visibility on the Internet—especially through social media –...

How to Quickly Handle Austin Maintenance Requests

One of the biggest challenges facing many Austin landlords, these days, is keeping pace with the overwhelming number of maintenance requests that seem to fly in from every direction! Whether you have one tenant or dozens of them, maintenance problems can be stressful and often ha...

Austin Events like SXSW Offer Potential Rental Opportunities

Image Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/people-crowd-hands-clapping-party-2607201/ With less than one month remaining before the 2020 SXSW Conference & Festivals descend on Austin, Texas, many lodging facilities, restaurants, and rental businesses are looking forward to a su...

Five Tips for Creating Great Walkthrough Videos

When you create and upload a walkthrough video of an apartment, duplex, or condo for rent, you are immediately giving yourself a competitive advantage. Although there are a lot of prospective renters in the Austin area looking for apartments to rent, those numbers are offset by t...

Turkey Trots in Austin for Thanksgiving

One of the many things that makes Austin a vibrant, exciting place to live is the annual Turkey Trots. Not only do these fun events encourage folks to get involved in our community and celebrate the upcoming holiday season, but they also help raise money for worthy causes. Unless...