{"id":10,"date":"2020-11-27T22:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-11-28T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:38:41","slug":"how-to-find-and-keep-a-good-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/how-to-find-and-keep-a-good-rental\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find and Keep a Good Rental"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Know your landlord\u2019s competition: One popular piece of advice is to become very, very familiar with the market \u2014 essentially, \u201clook harder.\u201d Network through friends, drive neighborhoods, ask about a sale property that\u2019s languishing on the market, and check out all the websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t be a high-drama tenant: Oft-forgotten is that you should think like a landlord. Raising the monthly rent isn\u2019t the only way that landlords maximize their income. They need to minimize expenses, too. That means keeping a unit from sitting empty even for a month. And it means finding renters who not only pay their bills but also don\u2019t call maintenance every other week with some kind of problem or complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf stuff is broken, absolutely, tell the landlord immediately,\u201d beyond that, though, leave the landlord alone, and the landlord will be keen to do the same for you, meaning no rental increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know your landlord\u2019s competition: One popular piece of advice is to become very, very familiar with the market \u2014 essentially, \u201clook harder.\u201d Network through friends, drive neighborhoods, ask about a sale property that\u2019s languishing on the market, and check out all the websites. Don\u2019t be a high-drama tenant: Oft-forgotten is that you should think like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tenant-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/property-mgmt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}