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Choosing an apartment management certification: Tips and comparisons

Buildium

Leasing and Marketing: Master effective marketing, unit showings, applicant screening, and lease negotiations to attract and keep tenants. Maintenance and Property Operations: Understand preventive maintenance, emergency repairs, vendor management, capital improvements, and software tools.

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Stessa vs Buildium: Which software is best for you in 2025?

Buildium

When leasing software ties directly into applicant screening, digital document storage, and rent collection, it reduces the chance for errors and cuts the time it takes to complete each lease. These tools remove bottlenecks from the leasing cycle and help teams move tenants in quickly without bouncing between systems.

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Renting Out Your House for the First Time in Indianapolis? Read This First.

T&H Realty

You’ll need to follow the rules around: Security deposits Fair housing compliance Proper notice for entry and lease terminations Habitability standards Eviction process And if you’re managing this yourself, you’ll be responsible for lease drafting, application screening, and knowing how to deny an applicant legally if needed.

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Streamlining Real Estate: Choosing Manageable Rentals

Real Property Management Chicago

More work is generated as a result, including more advertising, applicant screening, rent collection, move-ins and move-outs, and upkeep. It is more difficult to administer multifamily dwellings because you must deal with multi-family tenants.

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Fair Housing in Practice: Dos and Don’ts for DC Property Owners 2023

Nest DC

While fair housing covers every aspect of renting, it’s during the marketing and application screening phases that we see the most mistakes. Then, stick to it and always remember that common sense and striving to treat everyone equally are your guiding principles.

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What We Wish Rental Property Owners Knew About Leasing: The Tale of Property Managers in Los Angeles

Real Property Management Choice

Application Screening Many property owners don’t truly understand the importance of properly screening tenant applications. Our Los Angeles property management team relies on complete background, credit, criminal, and employment checks, as well as references from past landlords.

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How to keep LA tenant eviction rate to Zero!

Real Property Management Choice

Follow strict policies and procedures from applicant screening to rent collection. We don’t just qualify an applicant to get the property rented faster. Although we assisted many property owners to evict their existing tenants and saw many horrible cases, we have kept a zero eviction rate for the tenants qualified by us.

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