Maintaining your Long Beach rental property is your responsibility as a landlord, and it’s also an important part of investing successfully. Well-maintained homes always rent for more than those that are deteriorating and showing signs of age. Protect the condition of your asset by paying attention to routine and preventative maintenance.
Rental property inspections are the best tool you have to protect the condition of your investment home and ensure your tenants are following the terms of your lease. Inspections also allow you to check for deferred and unreported damage, which can get expensive if not taken care of right away.
Renting out a home that you grew up in or recently lived in can be extremely emotional. You might feel an attachment to the house that makes you very uncomfortable with the idea of perfect strangers living there now.
Marijuana is now legal in California, but it’s still considered an illegal drug on the federal level, and this is throwing some rental property owners into turmoil.
Bad tenants are a problem not only for you, but also for your property. There are a lot of reckless people out there who are willing to take advantage of rental property owners. They don’t pay rent on time and sometimes they don’t pay at all. They don’t take care of the property. Sometimes, they violate the lease agreement, moving in unauthorized pets and people or smoking marijuana inside the home despite your lease agreement prohibiting it.
Choosing a property management company in Irvine or anywhere in Orange County can be overwhelming, and once you have a property manager, changing companies can seem almost impossible.