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Breaking the Lease: What To Do If Your Tenant Never Moves In

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Breaking the Lease: What To Do If Your Tenant Never Moves In Finding quality tenants is hard enough to do on your own. What happens when you find a tenant that decides at the last minute not to move in? This breaking of the lease before moving in could happen due to a number of reasons. For example, they may have transferred their job or had an emergency come up that they weren’t expecting. Whatever the case is, how do you respond? What are the steps you should take to ensure you don’t get left in the dust? There are many...

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Top Tips for Advanced Tenant Screening

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Top Tips for Advanced Tenant Screening Veteran rental property owners will agree that the key factor to long-term profits is quality tenants. Once you find a good tenant, you can be set with a renter for years. It is important to implement advanced tenant screening in your rental process and avoid cutting slack to individuals who which to rent from you as you may lose out in the end. By following a few top tips below and continuing to work with your Chicago property management company, you can be successful in your renting endeavors. Develop Qualification Criteria and Document It Of...

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Questions to Ask Potential Property Managers

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Questions to Ask Potential Property Managers Managing a multi-family property on your own can be overwhelming. It can also be quite frustrating to try and find a property management company in Chicago that you can rely on. However, there are a few questions to keep in mind when you’re interviewing management companies that will help you weed out the candidates quickly. Be sure that you keep these in mind and ask them if you’re looking at hiring a property manager in Chicago. What type of tenant relations do you offer? – What type of tenant services do they provide? You may...

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Advantages of Online Record Keeping in Property Management

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Advantages of Online Record Keeping in Property Management Whether you’re a property owner or manager, there are many advantages to going online with your record keeping. Chicago property management has never been easier than when you work with the talented associates at Connected Management. Here you’ll find the latest technology available to you in keeping all of your reports in one convenient place. There are many benefits to this service, and you can discover more about them below. Everything In One Place The sheer convenience of this technology is a huge advantage to property owners and managers. Everything is all in...

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Rent and COVID-19: How to Help Your Tenants During This Time of Crisis

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Rent and COVID-19: How to Help Your Tenants During This Time of Crisis As a rental condo owner, the current market is a difficult one to navigate. Across the world, people are under stay at home orders, with millions of people having lost their employment status. In the US, the federal government has provided stimulus funds, but many people still have not received this money, nor is it enough to sustain everyday life. With your rental properties, you may begin to see your tenants have a hard time paying their monthly rent. Use your Chicago property management company to work on...

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