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3 Landlord Expenses You Might Not Have Considered

January 20, 2021

  Our job as a property manager is to make as much money as possible with your property. and that means maximizing your income and minimizing your expenses, but our founder, Jarrett Lau, runs a company as well and has to make sure that his people are taken care of and we do things such…

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How to Add a Dishwasher

January 18, 2021

        Easy way of adding a dishwasher     What we will do is work on the necessary electrical and plumbing behind the countertop. Once done, we  will slide in a dishwasher then we will make sure that it looks good and looks like the rest of the cabinets.    This is…

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How to Maintain and Improve Your Cash Flow

January 14, 2021

  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

January 12, 2021

  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

January 5, 2021

    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

December 30, 2020

  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

December 24, 2020

  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?

December 23, 2020

  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

December 23, 2020

  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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