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Safer Tenants with Outlet Testers
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the most affordable and useful tools to guarantee safer tenants is an outlet tester. All you have to do is plug it in and press the button. Now, how does it work and can it really save you time and money? An outlet tester, as its name suggests, is a small…
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Signs to Hire a Property Manager
Reading Time: 3 minutes Managing properties is not a job for just anyone. And even the most organized landlords need all the help they can get, hopefully from experienced and qualified property managers. Here are five signs it is time to hire a property manager to help you. #1 You don’t know your books When we…
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Achieving a Smooth Lease Management Transition
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are different ways a property management company handles transition in lease management. Here at Green Ocean Property Management, we make it as smooth and as efficient as possible. In this article, we share with you how we ensure a smooth transition of the management of properties and tenants during the duration of…
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Benefits of Having a Property Manager who is a General Contractor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Property managers and general contractors play different roles in real estate. But if you have a multi-serving property manager who is also a general contractor, like here in Green Ocean Property Management consider yourself lucky as you can experience these perks. Here are the benefits of having a general contractor as your property manager. …
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How We Pay our Landlords
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are different ways in which landlords or property managers collect rent from their tenants. In today’s article, we share with you the most effective strategy we use to pay our landlords here at Green Ocean Property Management. Many landlords who have been managing their properties themselves are very used to either getting checks,…
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Top 3 Proactive Maintenance Tips for Every Home
Reading Time: 4 minutes In today’s article, we share the top three proactive maintenance tips that have been proven and tested to save us money on repairs. We at Green Ocean Property Management do these for every single multi-family unit we manage. Generally, it is our job as property managers to be proactive about these things. We…
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5 Benefits of Hiring a LOCAL Property Manager
Reading Time: 3 minutes When choosing your property managers, there are some factors to consider. Hiring a property manager who is based within close proximity of your investment property proves to have more benefits than one who is 45-50 minutes away from you. Sure, their rates might be cheaper – because everything outside the city is typically cheaper…
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Our Simpler, Easier, Flat-Fee Pricing
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is flat-fee pricing, and does it make property management easier? In this article, we explain why we do flat fee management pricing versus much of our competition that implements percentage-based management fees. Flat fee pricing explained Flat fee pricing, also called flat-rate pricing, refers to charging a single, predetermined fee for…
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Keeping Things Organized in Property Management
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here at Green Ocean Property Management, we are asked all the time how we keep things organized. Well, nothing beats learning it through years of experience. And in our four decades of managing hundreds of properties, we have come to know what works and what doesn’t. So, how do we make sure that…