Property Management Blog - Tips, Help, Advice for Landlords, Investors and Renters in NC & SC

Have you thought about raising your income on your investment properties? The city of Charlotte is actually encouraging and making it really easy to do. They want more housing in Charlotte. So, if you have a property that has a big enough backyard, w... read more >>

Here's a great option for traveling nurses to stay in the Charlotte area. Renting for two to three months? Then this is the option. The answer is furnished ADU, Alternative Dwelling Unit, that you can put on already a rental property that you alr... read more >>

Here's a quick way to add $1200 to $2500 to your monthly income from your investment property. We're going to bring in an additional tenant to pay on top of what you're already getting. And how we do that is by adding an ADU to your alrea... read more >>

Here's a way to make an additional $40,000 a year per property. You can build an ADU and add it to your current rental property and rent it out as an Airbnb. So as you know, Airbnbs can bring in more revenue per rental on average. So that's a... read more >>

Here's a tip on what smart investors are looking for in the Charlotte area. They're looking to find corner lots. This way they can put an ADU, alternative dwelling unit, on their property, or they're looking for a deep lot so they can add... read more >>

Before 1978, lead was commonly used in household paint. Even though lead based paint is  no longer used in residential properties, many older homes still have layers of lead-based paint beneath newer coats. When that paint starts to chip, peel, ... read more >>

If you're a landlord in Charlotte, you’ve faced this question: How much should I raise the rent this year? It’s not always a simple answer (especially with new rules possibly on the horizon).There’s talk of a new rule that would... read more >>

If you want to get into the short-term rental business and you want to just attract an executive guest that's coming in for business, the ADU is the answer. Alternative Dwelling Unit. ADUs are kind of unique to the Charlotte market and welcomed b... read more >>

I started with a standard rental property, nothing fancy, just a solid home in a good location. Instead of keeping it as a long-term rental, I decided to furnish it and list it as an Airbnb. That one change brought in around $40,000 a year in short-t... read more >>

Here's why Zillow is a nightmare for landlords. Prospective tenants can upload their application right into the Zillow platform. But Zillow does not verify the information that was uploaded as real. So they can just go online, upload copies of th... read more >>