Rentometer Blog

Real estate investing has always been about being in the right position to make the most of the shifts in supply and demand. Every investor has a different set of factors to identify an ideal investment, but location always plays a significant role. Here’s how to identify a growing market or neighborhood for your real estate investment.

Do you want to increase your property management company’s exposure and generate more leads? As a property management company, you can use YouTube to increase your exposure to landlords and tenants. Let’s take a look at 6 of the best YouTube video ideas for your property management company.

Now in October 2020, we are not out of the woods. Many real estate investors feel a pinch as tenants have not paid many for a few months. With all evictions being frozen, the fallout of restaurants and businesses running at 50% or less capacity has yet to be seen, causing everyone in the real estate industry to ask, "When is the real estate market going to take a hit?"

At Rentometer, we wanted to know more as well. We’ve partnered with the American Apartment Owners Association (AAOA) to bring you a special Virtual Real Estate Roundtable. 

Effective tenant screening is a crucial part of the process, and one piece of that screening pie is the references you get from a tenant’s previous landlords. Here are 12 questions you should be asking previous landlords.

Real estate is, however, largely resilient; if you purchased a property to cash flow, you could very well weather a few bad economic quarters and withstand lower earnings, at least for a while. Here are 4 factors to help you determine if fall is a good time to purchase a rental property.