Anaheim Property Management Blog

Over 80 percent of the clients at Progressive Property Management came to us after managing on their own for a while. We call them SMIPOS – Self Managing Investment Property Owners. If you are just starting out as a l... read more >>

The real estate market is doing very well right now, particularly the Orange County rental market. This means the tenant pool is highly qualified, but it’s still easy to be stuck with a bad tenant. The real estate mar... read more >>

You have a rental property and have decided it is time to sell.  Whom do you call?  If you have a trusted Realtor who is a local expert, that might be the right call. But it is my experience that the best party to assist ... read more >>

New landlords are often unsure about what they are supposed to do or permitted to do when their tenants break the lease. Today we’ll tell you what we do at Progressive Property Management in order to protect your property and yo... read more >>

We have recently starting adding real estate agents who want to both sell properties and manage them as well.   We give them the training, provide all the back office operations (rent collection, owner disbursements, monthly rep... read more >>

Most people don’t wash their own car.  There are three reasons that I can think of. They do a better job. I don’t know about you, but since they wash hundreds of cars a day, they have the skills to do it better.  No mat... read more >>

I understand that many investment property owners do not currently pay for management services because they manage their own properties.  It is estimated that over 70% of all investment property owners are SMIPOs (Self-Managing I... read more >>

The fifth factor to consider when hiring a property management company is their responsiveness not just to the owner, but the tenants and vendors.  Since many people won’t complain in writing about the quality of service they r... read more >>

The fourth quality to look for in a property management company is understand their Core Competency. Core Competency is defined as "the main strengths or strategic advantages of a business".  No one property management company ca... read more >>

The sixth and last factor to consider when hiring a property management company is if you can trust or believe what they are saying to you.  You need your property management company to be transparent about their business practic... read more >>