Rockville Property Management Blog

Plumbing

What’s lurking under your house and in your walls? Some of the scariest things are those you can’t see. Pinhole leaks in corroded pipes, grease slowly choking off the sewer line are issues that go un-noticed until things suddenly go sideways quickly.Once the problem ...

Pets

If you haven’t figured it out by now, we like dogs. Every single blog post so far has a photo of a dog and I expect we’ll keep that trend going. People are weird about their pets; you have dog people and cat people, lizard people and people who dress their pet babies in cute ...

Getting the Rental!

It’s Spring Time! The grass is growing again, flowers are starting to bloom, and leaves are coming back to the trees. There’s another way I can tell it’s Spring time – people are getting serious about moving again! Here in the DMV area, people start plann...

The Devil Is In The Details….

I went home to Georgia recently, staying with my father while my sister–who’d moved in with my father to help care for him–went back to her apartment and moved all her things out.I’ve gone home three times in the past four months. Each time, my father and...

Problem With Renters

I recently read a post on FB about a couple that was having problems with their renters. The woman had bought a house in her 20’s , and had been renting it out for over a decade. She said they had terrible renters, who happen to be her husband’s old buddies. Their last reside...

Rental Houses

Recently the topic of our own rental houses came up. We sold one of our rental houses in Arizona, and we were so happy to get out from under it. The house was never supposed to be a rental property. We lived in the house for 3 years, after buying it in 2007. We planned to sell th...

Smoke Alarms

The last few properties we toured all had problems with their smoke alarms. Dead batteries, no batteries, disconnected from the internal wiring, people will do anything to get that thing to be quiet and if it’s already quiet (dead), folks just don’t think about them. Th...

There was a Better Way to Avoid Evictions than the Moratorium

Evictions suck. Nobody benefits, and every sane person seeks to avoid getting to that point. Landlords, property managers, and investors don’t like losing income and they definitely don’t want to shell out the time and money required to legally file and evict. The tenant woul...

Sinking in Wonderland

Once upon a time, we lived in Berlin Germany. It was a wonderful place and we had a wonderful house. It was in the perfect location, the public school our 4 young children attended was right over our back fence and we could ride down idyllic bike paths to their events and to the ...

Why Regular Walk-throughs Are Important!

I recently heard someone talk about their tenants, who were very well behaved young men. They paid their rent on time and there were no complaints. About 8 months into the lease, one of the tenants reached out to the landlord explaining how mold kept turning up on their medicine...