by Marissa Barajas | Oct 23, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
Do you see Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a friend or a foe? It’s not quite that black and white, is it? You’re probably using AI in your daily life a lot more than you realize. As professional property managers, we can tell you it’s having a profound effect on our...
by Marissa Barajas | Oct 9, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
Are you feeling like you’ve just about had enough of managing your own Santa Rosa rental homes? Once upon a time, it might have been easy to self-manage. You ran an ad for a rental home. You chose a tenant. You collected rent. Pretty straightforward. Welcome to...
by Marissa Barajas | Sep 25, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
How are you feeling about the performance of your rental properties in the Santa Rosa market? We all know that this part of California is unique. And while there might be a lot of attention-grabbing news (good and bad) about how things look in California and...
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...
