By JC Velez - Thursday, October 6, 2022

The Fair Housing Act: What California Landlords Should Know

If you’re a landlord who is renting out a property in Palm Springs or anywhere in California, your attention to fair housing laws is critical. This is a state with a lot of tenant protections. In fact, the state fair housing laws are stricter than the federal laws. You need ...

By JC Velez - Sunday, July 10, 2022

How to Set the Rent Price for Your Rental Property

As the owner of a rental property, your goal is to maximize the amount of profit that you receive from your single-family home, condo or multi-family building. The rent that you collect from tenants pays your mortgage, taxes (ugh!), insurance, maintenance and building your reserv...

By JC Velez - Monday, July 4, 2022

Rent Collection in Three Easy Steps

At the core, rental owners are in the rental business because they want rental income. If tenants don’t pay their rent, rental owners don’t get paid and they may have to initiate costly and time-consuming evictions. Property management professionals know that the method use...

By JC Velez - Thursday, June 30, 2022

Red Flags to Look Out For When Showing Your Home to Potential Tenants

In this article, we are going to go over some essential steps that have to take place as well as some red flags to keep an eye out for during the showing process. Although it may seem excessive, your property investment is worth going the distance for. Managing a property...

By JC Velez - Wednesday, June 29, 2022

25 Questions to Ask Potential Property Managers

So, you’ve decided to take the leap: 2022 is the year that you’re going to hire a property manager. Congrats–you’ve made a wise decision! It’s important to realize, though, that not all property management companies are created equally. Levels of experience can vary wi...

By JC Velez - Monday, June 27, 2022

Five Keys To Tenant Screening

If you want to minimize the risk in your property investment business, you should understand that a key to your success isn’t just buying the right investment property–it’s finding the right property management–whether that’s you, or someone you hire. And a critical co...

By JC Velez - Monday, June 20, 2022

Rental Property Management in Palm Springs. Keep Things Cool By Performing Summer Preventative Maint...

We all love summer. The picnics, BBQs, pool time, family reunions, and home improvement projects are just part of what makes the season fun. Along with the home improvement projects on your own home, rental property owners in the Coachella Valley need to remember to perform prev...

By JC Velez - Thursday, June 16, 2022

GOING ON VACATION? TRY THESE 10 SMART STEPS TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY WHILE YOU’RE AWAY

In all the hustle and bustle of getting ready for a vacation, it’s easy to think that simply locking the doors and setting the alarm is all you need to do to protect your house while you’re gone. The reality is that not prepping your home before you say goodbye leaves you...

By JC Velez - Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Avoid Palm Desert Tenant Turnover with These 3 Steps

Tenant turnover is an automatic cash flow killer. All of the administrative and advertising costs and the maintenance work to get the unit rent-ready, not to mention the lack of rent checks during vacancies, take a huge hit to your profit margins. Experienced Xepco Property Ma...

By JC Velez - Monday, April 3, 2017

The Top Palm Desert Rental Property Renovations to Increase Your Rent Revenue

With the new season now underway, many property owners in Palm Desert find themselves thinking about renovating their rental properties as a means to attract new tenants or to keep the current tenants happier. We joined with other Palm Desert property management companies to comp...