Property Management Blog

Creating Crisis Plans for Atlanta Homes as a Property Investor

Are you ready for anything? When your Atlanta homes for rent perform well and renters are happy, it's hard to think about planning for the worst. However, if recent history has shown us anything, 'the worst' can come out of nowhere and damage your income if you aren&#...

What to Do if Atlanta Renters Don't Pay Their Rent

Updated January 11, 2022Even without a pandemic or nationwide economic challenges, investment property owners will always deal with renters who can't (or won't) pay the rent on time (or at all) in Metro Atlanta.Your Atlanta rental property is an investment in yo...

Don't Skip Tenant Screening: Insight From an Atlanta Property Management Company

Finding (and keeping) the best renters means real estate investors in Atlanta rental properties can never take a break from thorough and fair tenant screening practices- even during tough times. We know it's challenging to lose renters (or income that renters can't p...

My tenant died! What do I do?

There are many difficult circumstances to deal with as a landlord (which is why it’s important to have professional management of your property), but this is one of the most difficult. On the one hand, you have a sense of empathy for the surviving family, but on the other h...

Is it too late to collect what I’m owed?

Sometimes we take on a new client who had a bad experience with a previous tenant who left the property owing money for either rent or repairs, and wondering whether it’s still possible to go after that money.Generally, as long as too much time hasn’t passed, and you ...

Filing Eviction - How Soon?

Something that differentiates us from our competitors, and from most property management companies even outside of our markets, is how quickly we file evictions when a tenant hasn’t paid. When we take over accounts from other management companies, we frequently see that tho...

Remaining Rent from a Skipped/Evicted Tenant

We occasionally get asked by our clients if a tenant is responsible for rent after they’ve been evicted or skip out mid-lease. The simple answer is “yes.” However, as with most things where the law is involved, the simple answer doesn’t really give you the...

Illegal Eviction

Although our eviction rate is less than half the national average, we do occasionally have to evict a tenant. When this happens, the property owner sometimes gets upset at the fact that we have to follow a legal process that can take 1-3 months, depending on which county the hous...

Wage Garnishment from Deadbeat Tenants

Thankfully, the vast majority of our clients never have to worry about this situation. Very few tenants ever have to have an eviction filed against them, since we're so thorough with our tenant screening on the front-end, but no screening can ever completely eliminate evictio...