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Is Your Chicago Apartment Building Senior Friendly? One community that you may totally be missing in your rental properties are the seniors. Seniors typically like to downsize their larger homes and may choose to move into the city to have easier access to medical care, shopping, and transportation. If they are moving into the city of Chicago, is your building ready for them? As a Chicago property owner, you need to take an assessment of your property to see if you are a senior friendly community. Take a look below at what some of the things seniors in your area are...

5 Benefits Of Working With A Rental Property Management Company As a rental property owner in Chicago, you may want to consider hiring a management company. Whether you have one property or multiple properties, you may think you can run it all by yourself. While that may be true, there are many benefits to you as the owner in hiring a management company. Check out the top five benefits below to hiring a Chicago rental property manager to help you run things smoothly and efficiently. High-Quality Tenants While you may know to run background checks and credit checks on your tenants,...

Renovating Your Chicago Condominium? Things to Avoid When you’re a property owner in Chicago, you want to make sure that your investment property is rented at all times. Sometimes your tenants will stay for years, but inevitably, they will leave, and new tenants will look at your building. As a Chicago condominium owner, you sometimes need to invest in the property and renovate your current apartments. It can be as simple as a fresh coat of paint or a total remodel of an entire floor. Working with your Chicago property management company can help you to get the job done while...

Maintenance on Your Condominium: Why You Should Consider Someone Else You own one or possibly multiple Chicago properties in the big city and you’re trying to do all the maintenance yourself. Have you gotten overwhelmed yet? While it’s admirable to try and maintain all the properties by yourself, as a property owner in Chicago, your best bet is to hire a property management company to handle all those tasks for you. There are many benefits to hiring a management company that can handle the day-to-day tasks of maintenance and rent collection for you. Take a look below to discover all the...

Tips for New Landlords in Chicago Are you just now getting into the real estate investment market? If you’re a new landlord, you may be feeling overwhelmed and a little anxious about your new adventure. Managing a Chicago condominium can be quite a daunting task at the beginning. You may be curious as to what you are responsible for, should you hire a Chicago property management company, how you will go about finding tenants, and what your safety requirements are as well. All these questions can seem to take over your excitement at becoming a new Chicago investment property owner. Here...