by Marissa Barajas | Nov 20, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
What kind of an impact do property assessments have on your bottom line, as a rental property owner? Rental rates are important. So is tenant screening, preventative maintenance, and retention. But those assessments are also a factor in income, expenses, and...
by Marissa Barajas | Nov 6, 2025 | Owner Education, Property Management Education
What are you supposed to do once you finally close the deal and buy the rental property? First, congratulate yourself on doing the thing. Maybe it’s your first real estate purchase, maybe it’s the start of a long-term portfolio, or maybe you stumbled into being...
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....
