Anaheim Property Management Blog

As you may be aware, a tenant is entitled to “normal wear and tear” or your rental.  But the adjective “normal” can be problematic.  What is normal to the tenant may be excessive to a property management company or owner... read more >>

If you are shopping for property management services, you may run into the problem of deciding between two companies who price a little differently.  At Progressive, we charge a flat monthly fee as low as 4% and no more than 10% ... read more >>

Some clients are uncomfortable with the fact that we use (and I own) Sierra Maintenance Services, the company that provides handyman services for properties we manage.  We found, that once we were managing 200+ properties, having... read more >>

It is difficult to make predictions because they are often wrong and if I knew what the future held I wouldn’t be typing this blog, I would be sipping mai tais poolside in Maui.  But nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I will ... read more >>

Recently, another property management company filed a complaint against me because the information I had posted in the Comparison Chart on this website was incorrect.  In our industry, this is a very serious situation.  If the l... read more >>

To most of the pundits’ surprise, Donald Trump won the presidential election and at least some of the policies and promises of his campaign will come to fruition.  More importantly for California, the democrats have won a super... read more >>

Recessions are part and parcel of capitalism.  The definition of a recession is a fall in the Gross Domestic Production for two consecutive quarters.   Not all recessions are like the Great Recession which lasted 6 quarters a... read more >>

Property management is a service business.  We don’t create a tangible product, we provide the service of managing residential (mostly) properties.  To most, that consists of collecting rents, paying bills, making disbursement... read more >>

We have quite a few current owners who bought a property in 2005 or 2006 just before the real estate crash, and rather than sell the home at a discount in the years following, kept the property as a rental.  They may have preferr... read more >>

The question we are asking today is: Can you get free property management? The answer is yes and no. Professional property management actually can be free to you as the landlord, but it won’t be free to your tenant. Commerc... read more >>