by Marissa Barajas | Sep 11, 2025 | Eviction, Owner Education, Rental Market Trends
Managing tenants who fall behind on rent requires patience, diplomacy, and professionalism. It’s not an ideal situation. When you’re faced with missed payments, the natural instinct may be to head straight toward eviction. That’s an understandable knee-jerk reaction....
by Marissa Barajas | Aug 28, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
Students can sometimes get an unfair reputation as tenants. A lot of landlords will imagine rowdy parties, forgotten rent payments, and a lot of entitlement among the youth of this particular demographic. But students today are about more than just TikTok videos and...
by Marissa Barajas | Aug 14, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
Good fences make good neighbors, or so said Robert Frost in his poem “Mending Wall.” Neighbors can be a gift or a challenge, depending on who they are and where you live. If you’re renting out a property in Santa Rosa, you might get some complaints from tenants from...
by Marissa Barajas | Jul 31, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
We are property managers in Santa Rosa. What does that mean we do? This is a question we actually get a lot, even though we’ve been doing this work for years. A lot of people have never worked with a professional property manager before. Or, we are asked this...
by Marissa Barajas | Jul 24, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
If you are renting out Santa Rosa homes, it is time to go green. This doesn’t mean you have to become an active environmentalist. We’re not talking about sustainability and environmental awareness as a political issue, but instead as a business issue. Your tenants...
