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Renters searching for a comfortable home to rent
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Renters Want a Home

Zillow analyzes ‘shares’ and ‘saves’ on its digital platforms and has discovered that would-be renters who rack up counts in each of these categories are the most likely to be serious renters. Obviously, that makes total sense. Zillow has taken this data and ….

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Distressed tenant discussing an abusive resident situation
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Abusive Residents

I’ve always said that being an on-site property manager is often a tough and thankless job. A report from the National Apartment Association, who surveyed 1,000 multifamily professionals across the country, revealed that the number one challenge for these ….

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Insurance agent explaining a homeowners insurance policy with house model and keys to a client.
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Insurance Costs Went Down?

Yes…yes, they did. From a report in September (pre-Helene), insurance rates decreased by .94% from 2Q2023 to 2Q2024. While not a significant decrease, a decrease nonetheless and the first decrease in over seven years. Regarding multifamily property ….

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Property managers and clients signing documents for efficient rental unit turnover.
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Proactive, Efficient Unit Turnover

A great article from Multi-Housing News who reports that resident turnover is costly ranging from $1,500 to $3,500, or more, per turn. Nearly 20% report that turnover costs typically exceed $3,500. So, how to reduce turnover ….

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Downtown Salt Lake City skyline representing renters' rights and rental housing laws in Utah.
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Renter’s Rights In Utah

An article the University of Utah’s KUER radio station, a PBS affiliate, cites Utah as being a relatively ‘unfriendly’ renter state in terms of legislation and policies aimed at assisting renters, going so far to say, “…the law here favors landlords in nearly every way.” ….

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Commercial real estate investment analysis with property models
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Essential CRE Insights

Beyond insightful for anyone in CRE. Worth every second of your time to listen and learn. Cannot recommend this particular Walker Webcast highly enough….

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Overwhelmed parents tied up by misbehaving children
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Trouble Coming?

As an old REO guy who has focused on distressed, foreclosed and value added multifamily over the course of a near 40-year career, I can’t help but be drawn to articles addressing distressed CRE loans and properties. There’s been some discussion …

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Hand putting fraudulent cash payment into a businessman's pocket
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Professional Fraudsters

Renter fraud is rising to new levels and becoming more and more common. In today’s digital world creating incredibly authentic looking false or fabricated documents has become far easier. The article states that only 17% of apartment owners …

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Walker & Dunlop Summer Conference – Willy Walker
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Walker & Dunlop Summer Conference – Willy Walker

Recorded at Walker & Dunlop’s recent annual summer conference in Sun Valley, this is must-see TV. Willy addresses a broad range of topics including interest rates, housing prices, asset classes, single/multifamily housing starts, …

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