Increase Curb Appeal through Common Area Cleaning and Maintenance
Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s article, we’re going to be covering common area cleaning, maintenance and upkeep. Of course, it’s a cost and we understand that since our founder, Jarrett Lau, is an investor and a landlord. Our job is to be able to maximize the actual income that you have coming into your property. More importantly…
What is The Best Way To Maintain Washer and Dryer
Reading Time: 2 minutes As property managers, we try to help our landlords and tenants in extending the life cycle of any type of appliance in their homes. Although it is used in most homes by many, some landlords switch to coin-op laundryin their apartments instead of individual washers and dryers. There are a lot of benefits that come…
How to Add a Dishwasher
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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…
How to Maintain and Improve Your Cash Flow
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
How to Reglaze Backsplash Tiles and Tubs to SAVE Money
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Why I Created Green Ocean Property Management
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
How to Keep Things Organized when Owning a Multifamily Property
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Top 5 Steps to Stop and Prevent Basement Leaks
Reading Time: 17 minutes 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…
Leases VS. Tenant-at-Will: When Do You Use Both?
Reading Time: 7 minutes 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. Why Written Agreements Matter No matter which arrangement you go with,…
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