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How to Maintain and Improve Your Cash Flow
Your investment property is probably one of the most expensive assets that you have. You may have bought it or kept it because you want to make money out of it. But managing an investment property requires a lot of planning and budgeting. At the end of the day, you need to know your…
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How to Reglaze Backsplash Tiles and Tubs to SAVE Money
People are taking showers, washing their dirty bodies every day, resulting in tubs and tiles stains. It gets discolored, grimy, and dirty. This isn’t very interesting to most prospective renters or anybody who is living in the unit, so probably every 4 or 5 years, depending upon the usage, we’re going to go in…
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Why I Created Green Ocean Property Management
Every single time Jarrett Lau, our founder, speaks to a new owner, he always goes through the whole spiel of why he created this business. In this article, we’re going to be explaining that very same thing because we want you to understand where we started. Our founder’s background As a…
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How to Keep Things Organized when Owning a Multifamily Property
Multifamily properties, unlike single-family properties, need to be organized at all times because of the volume of tenants that this type of property has. Here are some efforts that Green Ocean Property Management does to make multifamily properties be organized. How does Green Ocean organize multifamily properties? We provide space for bicycle…
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Top 5 Steps to Stop and Prevent Basement Leaks
With our buildings in Boston being hundreds of years old, it’s super common to get water in the basements, but as a general contractor and someone who manages hundreds of properties over decades, we’ve seen it all. So let us go through these steps to be able to prevent and stop basement leaks…
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Leases VS. Tenant-at-Will: When Do You Use Both?
If you own a property and worked with a property manager before, you may have heard of these terms already: tenant-at-will and leases. Lease being the common has been used to outline the list of agreements between the tenant and the landlord. In this article, we will discuss more tenancy-at-will and leases together with…
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Why Property Inspections and Walkthroughs are Important
The majority of our clients live either out of the state or out of the country. If they don’t live locally, they have other things to do with their time other than walking through their property. Some of them haven’t been in their properties in years, and that is where we help them. We…
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Can tenants paint the wall?
When moving in, one of the most common questions we get is, “Can tenants paint the wall?” As a property management company, this is what we personally do to protect you, the landlord. Any planned painting must be requested We put in all of our leases that if any type of painting…
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Green Ocean’s Off-Ramp Process and Fees
We often receive questions from our clients and tenants about our off-ramp fees. In this article, we will discuss that thoroughly. Green Ocean’s Off-Ramp Process and Fees Our off-ramp fee is a one-time fee. The majority of our landlords stay with us for the duration that they own their property, but there…
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