Apartment landlords and property managers are starting to reassess their cleaning protocols to ensure maximum health and safety for their renter communities in the Coronavirus era. Apartment managers and independent landlords are adapting with intensive cleaning methods required to guard...
The federal government passed the CARES Act on March 27, 2020, which provides a whopping 2 trillion dollars of economic stimulus to the US economy in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to expand an earlier stimulus package. Included in the legislation are loans, some portion of...
Landlords are among the first parties to receive that angsty phone call from tenants who experience an accidental lock-out. The causes for unintentional lock-outs are multitudinous: a key has gone missing; the key has broken off in the lock; tenants went out to walk the dog and left the key...
Apartment landlords and property managers constantly find themselves asking, “How quickly should I follow up with renters who express interest in my listing?” Well, the short answer is immediately. According to an ROI study by Boston-based property management software company Buildium, the ideal...
Winter brings its share of challenges for Chicago landlords and property managers. Ensuring safety and comfort for tenants in your apartment buildings should be at the top of a landlord’s checklist in winter. It’s not always the easiest work for apartment managers, but it makes you appreciate...
No tenant wants to open their mail to find a rent increase letter telling them that the landlord intends to raise the rent at renewal, but landlords shouldn't procrastinate if they intend to do so. For legal and practical reasons, you should let your tenants know as soon as you have decided to...
Chicago is a patchwork of unique neighborhoods, all of which are accessible to every one of us because of fair housing laws. These nondiscrimination laws are in place so that all renters are treated equally when we apply to rent apartments, regardless of core immutable characteristics like race...
Great photos will help rent your Chicago apartment faster, draw attention to your rental's best features and let renters know what to expect. We offer reccommendations of professional real estate photographers here, but there's no reason why you can't shoot your own photos. You can reuse a good ...
To the great dismay of the modern Chicago landlord, the days of rounding up a couple goons to forcibly eject a deadbeat tenant are a relic of the past. Nowadays, a landlord needs to file an actual lawsuit, navigate through the procedural hurdles, secure an order of possession from a judge, and...
