Finding the Right Balance by Deanna Alfredo Few operational decisions are receiving more attention in the single-family rental industry today than whether maintenance and field services should be managed internally or outsourced. Rising material costs, labor shortages, margin compression, and...
Maintaining a Comprehensive Insurance Strategy by National Real Estate Insurance Group Owning rental properties requires constant awareness of risk. One of the biggest decisions real estate investors make is whether to hire a professional property manager or handle those responsibilities...
Property Management Will Be Defined by Property Maintenance Operations by Molly Sperlich-Best For years, maintenance technology has focused on helping teams manage work orders more efficiently. Paper tickets became digital tickets. Resident phone calls became online submissions. Dashboards...
Rules for Optimal Performance by Richie Khandelwal On the evening of December 5, 2025, FIFA announced the 2026 World Cup match schedule. Somewhere in Kansas City that night, a short-term rental host saw Argentina assigned to Arrowhead Stadium on June 16 and quietly tripled their rates for that...
But with New Speed Limits by Andy Peluso After months of hearing “Are we there yet?” from residential developers, investors, and professional property managers, Congress finally pulled into the driveway and answered loudly, “Yes, we’re here!” On July 11, the 21st Century Renewing Opportunity in...
The Inspection Network Is Becoming an Operating Advantage by Blake Adams, SeekNow Many rental operators still lean on leasing or maintenance staff to handle move-in, move-out, and condition inspections. That works until volume spikes, portfolios spread across markets, and those teams spend more...
Protection for Your Investment and Practical Risk Management by Tyler Craddock If you own rental property, you already know the job does not end with buying the house and finding a tenant. Today, running a residential rental means keeping up with a constantly shifting set of federal, state, and...
Lake Michigan Capital Brings Experience & Imagination to Lending by Carole Vansickle Ellis When Lake Michigan Capital founders Mark A. Jones and David Gahm sold their decades-old lending business in the early 2020s, they knew the time had come to start something new. “We were not ready to be...
The National Debt, Mortgage Rates, and Inflation by REI INK It may be hard to fathom, but according to GovTrack.us, there are currently 17,329 bills and resolutions before the United States Congress with only about 7% of them expected to become law. As of this writing, July 18, 2026, the country...
