http://www.rentingnews.com Tips to help rent your apartment, house or condo Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:55:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was reported yesterday that owners of two large apartment communities in Manhattan can’t make their loan payments and will have to turn over the properties to the lenders. These folks were highly experienced yet failed with this investment due to market conditions. This goes to show even ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/120 If you manage a rental home or an apartment community, you may be interested to know that rental vacancies are up to 10.2% from 10% a year ago according to a recent Forbes.com article Experts attribute the rise in vacancies to a glut in housing due to overbuilding and poor economies ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/114 A Reuters report today said that US apartment vacancies are at the highest level in 20 years. This may be good news for renters as they have a better selection to choose from and many property management firms are offering incentives such as paying the first month’s rent. Landlords ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/110 If you own a rental property in a small town, you may find it hard to get tenants. Your area just may not have many people looking to rent. Does that mean you should lower your rent or sell your property? Not necessarily. A single family home in ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/103 During the spring break season, many of your renters will head out for a week while the kids are off from school or just to get some place warm. This is the perfect time to get some maintenance done on your rental. 1. Use the time to clean areas you know ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/70 If you own a rental home like I do, you have a decision to make in the near future. President-elect Obama has indicated that he will eliminate the capital gains tax break that is scheduled to expire in 2010. Whether he actually will try to eliminate it early, ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/58 [caption id="attachment_61" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=""][/caption] Have you ever dreamed about owning a beach house? My wife and I have talked about it many times and we are always looking at the prices to see if by magic they came down enough for us to afford one. Yesterday I spent a ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/57 I took a quick look at Cuil today, the new search engine started by former Google employees. So far, it looks pretty good for RentalsOnline.com. We are already getting traffic from them and the site comes up on the first page when searching for rentals in a lot ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/56 I noticed the other day that Rentalads.com is displaying listings from Apartments.com. It will be interesting to see if that helps them or hurts them. The added content from the listings should improve their results in the search engines and possibly with property managers, but the ads take ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/53 A small change was made to the email form on RentalsOnline.com. It is now placed at the top of the actual listing page where renters can type a quick note to the landlord. This makes it even easier for renters to inquire about an ad. The updated form ... http://www.rentingnews.com/archives/52