Most prudent owners of investment real estate have two primary objectives: cash flow and capital appreciation. Real estate, for most people, is their most significant investment and forms part of their wealth and retirement plan. Therefore, it’s essential to protect your property value.  With this level of importance, most landlords realize their investment needs to be … Read more

Regularly inspecting your Alberta investment property is fundamental to getting a good return. You or your property manager should be booking move-in and move-out inspections and an annual walk-through of the property. We have a free Alberta landlord property inspection checklist (below) for move-in and move-out, but what about those yearly visits? Many of our … Read more

We like to stress the importance of having a good Alberta Tenant Move-Out Checklist. Thorough move-in/move-out inspections are crucial to being efficient in changing tenants. To make money from a revenue property, you need to keep it occupied as much as possible. During the times your place is rented, you can count on covering the … Read more

In this blog, we want to share a few tips on how to reduce after-hours calls from tenants while keeping a good relationship with them.

There are many forms and details involved in receiving a new tenant, so mistakes are very common. These are the 3 mistakes Alberta landlords make the most.

When you have a tenant that moves out of your rental property, it is imperative that the property is made ready to be re-rented. Landlords often think a property will rent as it is but this is not the case in general markets and certainly not the case in soft markets. Here are five ways … Read more