There are so many things to love about Florida, the beaches, the warmer winters, the lack of state tax - but one thing all Floridians and Florida property owners could do without is hurricane season. If you’ve been in Florida during this dreaded season, which runs from June 1st to November 30th, you’ve probably seen the effects and damage done to properties and homes that were not equipped properly. We’ve created a checklist for your Southwest Florida Property to make sure you’ve done everything you need to prepare for this year’s hurricane season.
If you’ve ever experienced or even seen the force of a hurricane on the news, you ...
Spring Cleaning and Maintenance Tips for your Southwest Florida Rental Property
Springtime in Southwest Florida comes early and doesn’t last long! With temperature and humidity changes, we go from our ‘dry season’ to our ‘wet season’ which runs from May through October. So March and April make for a good time to ensure you home is prepared.
Following are some cleaning and maintenance tips for your rental property:
Create separate checklists for cleaning and maintenance. Keep these as a record for your knowledge and in case any questions from tenants or future buyers may have. This also allows you to check off work done an...Home & Condo Rentals Blog
November 6, 2019
Top 8 Tips to Prepare Your Home for Renters!
With the number of rente...
Top 7 Tips for New Rental Home Investors in Venice Florida
Have you wondered if investing in Southwest Florida would be a wise move? While there are never any guarantees with inv...
Home & Condo Rentals Blog
December 28, 2018
Furnished vs Unfurnished Rentals?
Welcome to Home & Condo Rentals’ Monthly blog. This is an informational section of our website to help constantly educate our clients and the public on what we do and ways to improve your rental experience, both from an owner and tenant perspective. This month’s topic focuses on the negatives of renting an annual unit furnished vs unfurnished.
Let us first g...
Home & Condo Rentals Blog
November 26, 2018
Chasing Market Rent
Welcome to Home & Condo Rentals’ Monthly blog. This is an informational section of our website to help constantly educate our clients and the public on what we do and ways to improve your rental experience, both from an owner and tenant perspective. This month’s topic is geared towards Annual Rental owners and what to think about when renewing a lease to a current tenant. Seasonal owners may find this information useful as well as some of the same points of emphasis can be used in seasonal rentals also.
First and foremost, let’s define the difference ...
One of the common public misconceptions of income producing properties is that tenants are always going to trash the place and you are going to have to count on spending thousands of dollars every time someone moves out to get your unit back into shape. We at Home & Condo Rentals have seen too many instances of first time investment homeowners relying on intuition and a handshake to make decisions on who they accept as tenants. No one wishes this were still an acceptable way of doing business more than us as we still believe someone’s word is their bond, but the unfortunate reality of this approach is that there are too many people that know exactly how to play the system these ...
If this House is a Rockin, Maybe it is Hurricane Season..
Here at Home & Condo, we like to say we are not property managers, but investment managers. Your home is your investment and we manage your investment for you. As with all investments, you want to make sure that your investment is safe and well protected. We are officially entering Hurricane season down here and to kick things off, we had a pretty nice little system dump rain on us for the greater part of the last two weeks. Welcome to Sunny Florida ☺. This brings me to this month’s blog topic: How to prepare and best protect your property during hurricane season. Below are some tips for protecting your home as b...
The Spring “season” is upon us here in sunny Venice, FL and what does that mean? It is about to get hotter than blazes outside, storm season is right around the corner and our population is about decrease significantly. One of the biggest offseason issues facing seasonal owners is property maintenance throughout the summer months when no one is there to report problems. If a home is closed up for seven or eight months during the summer, you have to have the wherewithal to plan ahead for issues that could arise during that period.
The grind of season drops off for our agents so they shift their focus to checking units throughout the summer to hopefully catch any possi...
