If you are a real estate investor, your aim should be to increase your portfolio rather than looking at the affairs of a property and its tenants. Even a single property with multiple tenants can earn good amount of money for you but it is a full time job to leave little time to work as an investor. If you become involved with a single property, all your time and energy will be taken up by the challenges thrown by its marketing, screening of tenants, maintenance, and repairs. Here are top 5 reasons why it is a good idea to let a property management company manage the affairs of property and tenants for you.
You will get time to plan for more investments
Ask any full time landlord and you will know how difficult it is time manage the affairs of a property and its tenants. A property management company will handle the affairs of your property and its tenants to give you time and relaxation that you can use to make more investments. You will be able to increase your portfolio and therefore your assets and profits if you have a property management company handling the affairs of your properties.
You will not have to worry about collection of rent
One of the biggest worries of all landlords is collection of rent on time. They pay visits to their tenants not once or twice but many times until each one has paid the monthly rent. It can be pretty time consuming and also tiring but a landlord has to carry out this unenviable job for the sake of his cash flow. But when you hire the services of a property management company, collection of rent becomes their responsibility and you can forget all your worries about this aspect of business. They will collect the rent and deposit it in your account. They will also keep a record of rent collection and make it available to you whenever you want to take a look at it.
You will get good quality tenants
Property managers deploy a robust tenant screening system to make sure only good quality tenants get a chance to occupy your property. It is very difficult for a landlord to carry out all sorts of background checks on his applicants to keep bad quality tenants away from his property. These tenants, when they get past the stage of application, not only create problems in paying monthly rent but also cause damage to the property.
Aggressive marketing of property
Property managers are trained to market the property in such a way so as to attract large numbers of tenants to it. They know how costly vacancy can be and as such spare no efforts in marketing the property on all marketing channels.
Looking after the legal disputes
All landlords know how time consuming and tiring it can be when they are dragged into a court of law by their tenants. All legal matters pertaining to a property and tenants are handled by the property management company to give complete peace of mind to the landlord. They have legal experts in their team who know how to deal with the loopholes in laws. It is like another day in the office for them and they don’t bother the landlord when evicting a tenant from the property.
In the end, it can be said that the services of a property management come very handy for a landlord even though they charge a commission for it. They make sure that that the client gets a high return on his investment as it translates into higher profits for them.
If you’d like to talk more about property management, or you need help with Everest Property Management, please contact us at Everest Realty.
As a top producing Realtor and Property Manager; Terry specializes in sales, extensive construction homes, rentals, REO’s, short sales, and all aspects of Real Estate. After graduating the University of Michigan with a master in MBA, Terry continued his endeavor and now has over 15+ years of experience in the Real Estate world. If there is anything that has to do with Real Estate and sales, you can always be sure of Terry to provide important, specialized knowledge.
