You’ve Been Red-Listed

I’m not quite sure what “red-listed” means, but it’s a good term that just slipped out while talking to once again another nut-job in this property management business.
Last week, we had a Tenant and her sister come by and fill out and application for one of our smaller units. She told us that it [...]

Bluntly Speaking

We waited for an hour for Congressman Roy Blunt to show up for our 3:30pm meeting regarding the JDRF Promise To Remember Me campaign last Wednesday. I thought for sure that he’d come breezing in and give me less than 5 minutes to make my presentation and then scoot us out of his office. [...]

Desperately Seeking Sump Pumps!

This blog really isn’t the weather channel blog. But for some reason I seem to keep writing about snow, ice storms, a crazy pendulum swinging temperatures. Believe it or not, weather plays a huge part in managing over 200 rental properties.
Over the last 24 hours, Springfield has received 7+ inches of rain flooding [...]

A Company with an Attitude

Property Management can be a tough business. It can be hard when there are some Tenants that lie to you, destroy your house, don’t return your phone calls and even worse…don’t pay their rent. But if you have the right attitude you can certainly deal with anything that a quirky Tenant throws [...]

Getting Back To My Good Habits

My husband just recently got a new phone. He dumped the 4 year old Motorola Razr and upgraded to a Blackberry Pearl (which really is a nice phone). Which means that he now has unlimited internet access, e-mail and text messaging. Where I saw this as the unlimited bliss of NOW HE [...]