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How to Perform a Background Check | Tenant Screening Tips for San Antonio Landlords

Understanding how to perform a background check on a tenant is a critical part of placing the right tenant in your property. You have to balance the information you collect with all fair housing laws and requirements. It’s essential to have a consistent process in place so that every applicant is treated equally.Establishing Rental ...

How to Find the Best San Antonio Property Management Company for You

The best property management companies will work hard to get your business. If you’re looking for someone to manage your rental home in the San Antonio area, take some time to research your options. When you’ve identified a few good prospects, interview them. All owners and properties are different, and you need a management c...

Best Way to Collect Rent on Time in San Antonio, TX

As a rental property owner, your cash flow depends on the consistent collection of rent. The best way to collect rent from  tenants is by having a process in place, and to make sure that process is clearly stated in the lease. This will help you avoid late payments and excuses. Rent Payment MethodsThe best way for landlords...

5 Reasons to Hire Liberty Management to Help Manage Your San Antonio Rental Property

Liberty Management has been providing high quality rental property management to San Antonio and the surrounding areas for over 30 years. Today, we’re talking about why you should consider working with us when you’re looking at local property management companies. Certified Management CompanyLiberty Management is a Certified R...

Realizing the Benefits

Many times property owners question property management services because of the fees. Now with a distressed economy, this can become an even bigger question when a difficult market puts investment finances to the test. After quoting our fees to a prospective client, we often hear - you want that much money for just collecting the rent? Of...

Retaining Good Tenants

Property Management is an ever-changing business and to make it a successful venture, ongoing education is a requirement. Knowledge is the key to creative marketing, working with tenants, providing the right documentation, understanding landlord/tenant law, and more.Who Needs Education?The answer is everyone. Applicants for vacancies need...

Setting the Stage

If you list your home with a REALTOR, they would advise you to take certain steps to maximize how your house would show to the public. Their recommendations may include cleaning, landscape clean up, painting, installing new flooring, changing an appliance, and more. In addition, if the house were vacant, they might even recommend renting ...

Tenants Performing Maintenance

Many times tenants offer to perform maintenance on properties. While it may seem to be an excellent idea at the time, promoting thoughts of saving money, and an easy repair - it can lead to many problems.Landlords need to ask themselves why the tenant is offering to absorb the time and expense of the work. There are tenants who are honest...

What Does the Tenant Want Now?

Mold has been around a long time - literally, as long as there have been living organisms. Therefore, it may seem strange that it has become such an important and potentially dangerous issue. However, mention the possibility of the existence of mold to any reputable Property Manager, it gains immediate and urgent attention. The damages aw...

What IS Normal Wear and Tear?

If you enter the words normal wear and tear in rental housing, into a search function in the computer, you will be amazed to find hundreds of articles or references on this subject. Many of them are tenants who dispute that the property owner charged them with damage when it was ordinary use of the property.What makes this issue so diffic...