Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category

Peoria house 99% rented

Monday, July 28th, 2008

My current tenant told me that they were leaving at the end of August on last Wednesday.  I put a very simple ad on craigslist on Thursday.  I got a call from a couple who has 5 kids and 2 dogs right away.  The reason they are moving is because they came ...

Peoria house tenant is leaving

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I got a call from my tenant today at my Peoria rental home telling me that they will be moving out at the end of August.  My tenant was on a 6 month lease that ended in April and have been going month to month until now.  They found a ...

Back from vacation

Monday, July 21st, 2008

After spending a week in 75-80 degree weather, I'm back in the heat in Phoenix.   So what's new? SLC Townhomes The new tenants of SLC Townhome #2 moved in and found out that the AC unit was not working.  My PM had someone go take a look at it.  I assumed that ...

Today was a good day…

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Some days things just turn out well...  Today (actually it will be yesterday by the time you read this) just reminded me of the 1993 Ice Cube song "It was a good day (Youtube link)". Good news from my PM.  My SLC townhome#2 is rented at $1150/mo!  That's a $50 increase in rent.  No ...

Kudos to My Property Manager

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I used berate my PM alot on here.  In fact, since I've posted about my PM back in 2006 and 2007 they have improved greatly.  When I first hired them, they were a small 2 person mom and son operation.  In the past 2 years they have expanded to as far as I can ...

SLC tenant update

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Well it has been 1.5 months without a tenant in one of my SLC townhomes.  We've had a decent number of showings but no applications.  This leads me to believe that I am priced a little too high.  We've increased the rent $200 from $995 to $1195.  My other identical ...

HOAs and parking on the streets

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I got a letter today from the HOA stating that my tenants had a car parked in the street overnight.  For those who don't live in HOA communities, most new communities do not allow parking on the street at night.  All cars must be kept in the garage or driveway. Anyway, ...