Landlord Resources

When it comes to renting with pets, landlords and renters often have different views. After surveying 1,000 tenants, it was found that approximately 90% of renters have pets. Around 69% of landlords do not allow pets in their rental properties due to concerns about potential pet-related issues.

As a landlord, it's your responsibility to carefully evaluate the pros and cons of allowing pets and create a pet policy suitable for your property. Whether you choose to allow pets or not, it is necessary to include a pet policy in a lease agreement. 

Have you ever rented out the property for residential purposes, but then discovered that your tenant used it as a home office without consent? Is it considered a breach of tenancy, or should it be accepted?

As a landlord, you are allowed to set the rules at your rental properties. If you are not okay with your tenants having pets in the apartment, no worries. A no-pet policy will help you to specify this. But the policy cannot be applied to tenants who have a medical need for an animal.

With proper communication between both parties, upgrades can be beneficial for all. Successful, tenant-led upgrades can improve the relationship between you and your tenants and even the property as a whole. With proper expectations and documentation, allowing upgrades can be a great choice.

Every landlord makes a commitment to keeping the value of an investment property intact through the careful oversight of tenants. As a landlord, you must  manage the property, carry out maintenance, keep track of financial transactions, and most importantly, build a strong relationship with the tenants.

Most landlords know about the effectiveness of using maintenance management systems and the benefits when it comes to tenant satisfaction. Whether it’s a built-in service or a separate management tool, online maintenance management is a great way to tackle home maintenance and prevent costly repairs that might occur in the long run.

While in-person communication still isn’t a safe way to interact due to the pandemic, digital tools are there to substitute traditional offline forms of communication. From this perspective, we’d like to present you with three communication tools inside the TenantCloud system that will help you keep in touch with your residents and store business-related information in one place.

While it might look like virtual environments provide nothing but benefits, the lack of in-person communication is a challenge for many people. So we’ve collected a few insights that will help you develop effective communication with your tenants and improve your relationship with them during hard times.

Thanksgiving Day is a perfect time to show your appreciation to the people around you. In the property management world, it is not a common practice, but most landlords consider gestures of gratitude to be an effective way to improve a landlord-tenant relationship.

While there is nothing wrong with letting your tenants invite guests over or host friends and relatives, you should be careful with guests who do not know when it is time to leave.
To be on the safe side, consider these simple tips to keep your tenants' guests from staying too long.

No matter if you are a first-time landlord or a professional with years of property management experience, some tenant complaints might make you pretty confused. But the good news is that any complaint can be handled with the help of effective communication strategies and certain tech tools.

Many landlords have to deal with loud tenants (not to mention the neighbor's complaints of excessive noise). It is so common, that I bet you have faced the same issue in your rentals at least once during your landlording career.
Here are a few tips on how to deal with noise in the rental without losing a good but noisy renter.

Encouraging your current tenants to stay in your rental for longer is what saves you from going through the move-in process all over again. These four easy tips are worth considering if you are tired of constant tenant turnaround.