Property Management News
Clear communication around apartment fees is no longer just a customer-service issue. In a flat rent-growth environment, multifamily owners who explain charges, demonstrate value and give renters meaningful choices may be better positioned to protect occupancy, retention and ancillary revenue while reducing regulatory risk. Rising property taxes, insurance premiums, utility bills and maintenance expenses are squeezing multifamily net operating income. For many owners and operators, the practical response is some combination of higher rents and charges for amenities or services. But the way those fees are presented can matter as much as the fee itself. A new report from proptech... Read more
A resident disputes an $840 carpet charge. You open the file and find a move-in checklist with “carpet: good” in handwriting nobody recognizes, a move-out...
I lost everything in 2008. Fifty million dollars, gone. When I talk to people starting out now, the thing I push hardest is not a strategy that makes the most money. It...
Fires at multifamily properties are more common than people realize. The U.S. Fire Administration estimates that fire departments respond to an average of 106,700...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Buffalo, Chicago, and Houston recorded the largest growth in out-of-town rental searches on Zillow, followed by New Orleans and Dallas. August rents rose...
AI tools are allowing prospective renters to convincingly falsify pay stubs to make themselves look like the top candidate for a competitive unit. San Francisco’s apartment market is on fire, thanks in large part to an AI hype wave that has pushed monthly rent for a one-bedroom past $4,000. But the same industry upending the market is also making it easier for tenants to fake out landlords with sophisticated false documents, the San Francisco Standard reports. Headlines have concentrated on tenants duped by fake listings and duplicitous agents who defraud people out of thousands for apartments that don’t really exist. But in this ultra-competitive market, both landlords and tenants can... Read more
A tenant misses a $1,500 rent payment, and the landlord faces a difficult decision: whether to begin eviction proceedings or give the tenant additional time to pay....
Following a surge in AI-altered listing photos, multifamily owners and brokers are scrambling to prepare for a new generation of disclosure laws designed to protect...
Renting a starter home remains less expensive than buying in all 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, continuing to support rental housing demand despite three...
The problem nobody’s actually solving Here’s the strange thing about 2026: staffing pressure has eased almost everywhere except the one place it hurts most....
Accessibility