Your Landlord Resource Podcast

Garbage Disposal: Provide Them or Skip Them?

Send us Fan Mail Garbage disposals in rentals are the only appliance I can think of that costs a hundred dollars and can quietly turn into a several thousand dollar prob

Best Time to Renovate a Rental (And When to Wait)

Send us Fan Mail The best time to renovate a rental is almost never the moment you finally get sick of looking at the kitchen. Timing is the variable nobody talks about,

Rental Appliance Repairs: Who's Responsible For What?

Send us Fan Mail Rental appliance repairs are one of those things you never decide until you are forced to. The refrigerator quits on a Friday night. The dishwasher wate

Vacancy Checklist: Before You Say Yes to a Showing

Send us Fan Mail This shorty is a checklist episode where we walk through the nine things (plus a bonus tenth) we do every single time between placing a vacancy ad and g

Landlord DIY vs Hire Out: What to Handle Yourself

Send us Fan Mail Every landlord has to make the decision to DIY a task or hire it out. Something breaks, you have got your phone in one hand, ready to call the tech, and

Collect Rent on Time, Every Time

Send us Fan Mail If you want to collect rent on time, stop thinking of it as something you chase. Almost every late payment we have dealt with in twenty-plus years was n

Maintenance Requests: What’s Urgent and What Can Wait

Send us Fan Mail It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night, your phone lights up, and the toilet in your rental is leaking. Do you get in the car, or do you go to sleep and call your

What To Do After a Tenant Signs Their Lease, Our Move-In Process

Send us Fan Mail So, the lease is signed, the confetti’s basically falling, and then… what? If you’ve ever found yourself scrambling three days before move-in trying to

Lease Addendum vs. a New Lease: How to Know Which One You Need

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever stared at a lease wondering whether you need a lease addendum vs new lease entirely, this episode is for you. Kevin and I get asked

Unit Turnover Checklist: What Actually Happens Between Tenants

Send us Fan Mail Turnovers are one of those parts of being a landlord that either quietly build your profit, or quietly drain it. After doing more of them than I can cou

Summer Tax Prep: Why Now Is the Time to Get Ahead

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords think about taxes in February. By then, the year is already over — and so are most of the opportunities to do anything about it. In this

Renting to Students and Freelancers: What Every Landlord Needs to Know

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords know exactly how to screen a W-2 employee. Two pay stubs, an employer call, run the three-times-rent math — done. But what happens when t

Maintenance: Who's Responsible for What?

Send us Fan Mail You probably know that if your roof leaks, that's on you. But do you actually know who pays when a tenant ignores a slow drip for six months until

Guest Policies: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Actually Enforce Them

Send us Fan Mail You probably have a lease. But does it have a rental property guest policy?  You know, one that actually defines how long a guest can stay, who's r

Should You Allow Smoking in Your Rental?

Send us Fan Mail If you've never had a smoking tenant, consider yourself lucky — and unprepared. A smoking policy for landlords isn't just a nice-to-have anymo

AI Is Your New Business Partner

Send us Fan Mail What if you had a business advisor on call at two in the morning when your tenant sends a threatening email, your insurance company denies a claim, or y

How Well Do You Know Your Rental Neighborhood?

Send us Fan Mail You know the neighborhood when you buy. But do you really know it now that you own and manage the property? In this Shorty episode of the Your Landlord

Estate Planning Mistakes Landlords Make

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords spend years building a rental portfolio — and almost no time planning what happens to it when they're gone. Whether you have no esta

When Your Tenant's Kid Turns 18

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords don't think twice when a teenager has been living in their rental for years. But the moment that kid turns 18, something quietly shi

Shop Talk: The Importance of Rental Property Photos

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords know they need photos to market a vacant rental. But if that's the only time your camera comes out, you're leaving serious mone