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 David Mercado - Thursday, September 22, 2022

Best Practices for Tenant Screening in Palm Desert

When you partner with Xepco Properties for leasing and property management services in Palm Desert, we work very hard to keep you out of the tenant screening and placement process. It’s for your own protection. The screening process in California presents a lot of op...

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 David Mercado - Thursday, July 7, 2022

10 Eviction Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

Evictions can be tricky: One wrong move, and you can wind up making embarrassing or costly mistakes that delay the eviction and disrupt your income stream. Unfortunately, landlords and property managers tend to make the same mistakes–and pay the price–time and time again. In ...

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 David Mercado - Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Signing a Lease and Tenant Move In | Time and Costs Required

Our journey has taken us from determining market rent, to ensuring our rental property is “rent ready” and will attract the best renters, to advertising our rental property for rent, to processing rental applications to choosing the right quality and qualified resident ...

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...