How Can You Actually Save Money on Managing Your Rental Property?

in money •  7 years ago 

Managing rental properties comes with many challenges. As your business grows, those challenges often get bigger and more complex. There are many moving parts from scheduling housekeeping and staying on top of repairs and maintenance to marketing properties and creating positive guest experiences.

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Sometimes, it seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day or hands on-deck to manage it all. It can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned property managers. However, with the right tools, strategy, and team, you can ease your workload while increasing revenue. These tips can help you save money on property management without sacrificing quality.

1. Invest in actionable data.

When you are more informed about your properties and guests, you can make better decisions. For example, knowing when you need to perform routine maintenance can save you from an expensive and preventable repair in the future, or worse, a bad review!

Gain insights from guest booking behaviors, online reviews, and other data. It can help you improve the overall process and create more satisfying stays.

2. Develop a mindset for efficiency.

Time is money. To survive in the fast-paced digital world, property managers need to focus on efficiency and innovation, while still maintaining high standards of quality. Luckily, there are countless tools at your disposal to help you automate and manage many critical but repetitive tasks.

For one, the process of creating property listings is essential to attract guests, but it can also be tedious and time-consuming. With BookingTeam.com, property managers don’t need to spend hours creating listings on multiple sites. Instead, listings can instantly be shared with hundreds of rental sites, including TripAdvisor, HomeAway, AirBnB and many more. With more time, you can focus on what drives your business–amazing guest experiences.

3. Use BookingTeam.com to manage your listings.

Managing a property in today’s rental market is completely different than it was 10, five or even two years ago. People want booking experiences that are seamless and secure. They expect faster responses and attentive support. As a property manager or owner, it is unrealistic and costly for you or an in-house team to be available around the clock. This is why we provide customers with a 24/7 support team of professionals to assist with rental property management. Combined with your excellent property management, housekeeping and an access code system, your guests will be happier than ever before, while you save loads of time and money in the process thanks to your 24/7 booking team.

Combined with your excellent property management, housekeeping and possibly an access code system, your guests will be happier than ever before, while you save loads of time and money in the process thanks to your 24/7 booking team.

At BookingTeam.com, our mission is to make rental property management simpler and more effective. We help property managers and owners handle all the moving parts that come with the rental business so that you can focus on what is most important, guest experiences and 100% satisfaction.

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The only way to save money on rental property is to sell immediately and run far, far away.

I have never hired management in 15 years of having tenants, 95 percent of millionaires go rich off real estate. It's a nice pay check even if you have to fix heating and toilets time to time :) Hand pick your own tenants like I do, I"m very happy with it, Beats a regular job all day long :)

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...to Colorado. We're pretty much equidistant to everything

As long as you can sell it with profit. Otherwise it's a no go.

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There was a time when having rentals was more reward than risk. You only have to see people once a month unless a major repair was needed and you could pay off a mortgage property with very little head or back ache. Those days are pretty much gone. I would be terrified every time I had to bring a new tenant in. No thank you.

Nothing to fear but fear itself, I bought homes for 90 percent off in 2009 crash, paid cash and I"m on slate to do it again with the next crash. Pick tenants that need you more than you need them. I talk about that on my page RE, real estate niches. True freedom is being in real estate, it's where millionaires are made. HANG IN THERE,,,,,,, join me in the journey

impressive... managing my rental property is a nightmare on not elm street

do you mind if i ask why is it a nightmare ? bad tenants perhaps ?

hmm

totally agree with you. it is tedious and time consuming.

Your post could come in handy to my friend who has several renting properties in Oxford...he was recently complaining about not having enough time to handle all the tenant's requests .

Thanks for sharing these tips. Voted, followed and resteemed.

That would be great. I am sure he would very happy with our services. Thanks @recreator !

Landlords need to be careful how they handle tenants, Not to nice and not too mean. We aren't on call, if heating goes out give us a day, have a team of repair people who work cheap and arrive fast, Once you have a team, it's easy. I have went 1 years without hearing a thing from tenants. The pay is awesome and the hours are minimal,

Hello booking team, just a question, what services are you providing? I am from oversea and maybe interested in investing property in another country, is that doable? Also what is the rental yield and the management fee is like? Many thanks.

Hi @wikinshui thanks for your comment. We help hosts of holiday rentals (apartments, houses, boats) manage their reservations 24/7. That way they have all the best tools optimally managed by their own personal team. It's a collaboration platform so very easy to use. And the hosts can then focus on their guests satisfaction again, since they save loads of time.

Superb post and impressive....

Nice image!

I hae been in the rental game for 11 years and I have found that the best way to minimize your risk after placing a tenant, is to have a good relationship with them and treat them as human beings, and not some engine that makes you money.

Does BookingTeam.com accepts crypto to help make rental property management simpler? Wonder if there is a rental management where cryptopreneurs, steemians, bitcoiners and others could pay for everyday use. Rent and management can be one of this to help lift crypto's values

Hi @cryptopreneur great idea, we support payouts through Uphold and also with crypto to a Shakepay card for instance. :)

so Uphold is this: https://uphold.com/en/developer/blog/posts/api-changes/breaking-change-regarding-crypto-addresses-on-uphold-cards

and Shakepay card is this one: https://shakepay.co (supports dash, ETH, and BTC)

sweet! Live as a cryptopreneur and make the world know that there are people that pays by crypto...and if they don't accept crypto, then witness crypto turn to debit to pay as go. Hope it accepts steem as well soon :)

Another great post😊

It seems so daunting but thanks for the informative information and addition supplements.

Property manager will not work for most landlord, if you want to own rental u have to manage yourself and dont buy rental out of state, buy it inly when u can drive to it if there are problems.

Nice info. Thanks!

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Managing my properties is a problem I do not have. Mainly because I got no properties, and also, no money to buy any for the time being.


And I do not think the mansion I have in GTA Vice City counts...

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Great advise good post!

I see the region you cover is nearly global. How do you provide on the ground services?

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This is a great concept. The problem is that you advertise on steemit and want to payout in fiat. Paypal is one of the biggest scam sites there is. I had paypal rip me off twice and I learned never keep fiat in the paypal account for long. How about paying in crypto? I'm sure a lot of people here would rather rent their properties out for crypto than fiat.

The thing with PayPal is that people can ask their money back without any reason. Which will easily get you scammed is you try to sell something by using pay-pal.

paypal can also close your account for any reason.

Ive come to the conclusion that paypal just sux and everyone should just use crypto.

I am with you great work

paypal always closes owner's account for little or no reason. Prefer a crypto wallet.

Yep, be careful on PayPal. We had $100,000 frozen for 6 weeks!!!

your lucky you even got it back. paypal is a notorious thief.

Awesome Post!

Time is money indeed.

Great post.

great blog!

How do you deal with the whole health and safety issue - fire risks and so on. Do you advise your clients to take out insurance?

What do you think of all the tax changes that the UK has made for the letting business? In your opinion does it make renting less profitable? Should people sell up and get into another asset?

Awesome post

Useful. However, does your site cover just the US or other areas of the world (such as the UK)? The UK took a hit recently in the rental sector after Govt tax changes made it far more expensive to run rental properties!

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Thanks for this Post to Steemit Community

True all in all, i even looked at your website and you offer a lot, a lot all possible accommodating places to book or rent. I like these posts keep them up.

Exactly i completely agree with you

I have a rental property and have been having problems with air B&B and Homeaway. I will look into booking team

You seem to have a nice experience in this field.Many people have a business of rentals only.. and they earn a lot.. and these strategies are adding an extra star to te performance. Your website is very simple and userfriendly and appears attractive too. You are sure gonna be a good rental service provider..

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Thank you bookingteam.com
I have been following all post and see they are all informative. I will talk to few friends to start using the website for their business.

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Simple steps yet so efficient.

Interesting.. Thanks for the info

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Your thought process is very unique from the others.

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I will try some of these tips! thanks!!!

thank you for all the info

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Wow Awesome post :D

Really..!

Thank you bookingteam.com
I have been following all post and see they are all informative. I will talk to few friends to start using the website for their business.

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i sometimes think to just not have any rental house to manage..

great initiative..

Wowww, so thoughtful post! Thank you for sharing it with us!!!

Nice article man! I'm thinking of following some of this. Keep it up!

Thank you for this information :)

Good job

thanks for sharing :)

The great thing about buying a house with cash rather than seeking a mortgage is that you can eliminate the expense of the mortgage payments. Every cent of rental income you receive, after maintenance expenses are paid, is profit. That can make the difference between a rental property business that succeeds and one that struggles.

Leveraging your property purchase by using other people’s money — a mortgage — can turn out to be profitable when property values increase, but that’s not guaranteed. Loans open up the possibility of becoming a landlord to more people, easing the affordability of properties. Having the cash to buy the property outright is not necessary, but if you have the money and are willing to invest in your own business, it will be much easier to generate a positive cash flow.

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Got to go thru this few times .. i am facing a nightmare with my valuable property being vacant and being far away renting them out is scary ..

informative posting
thank you for good posting

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Really great advice

I kind of fell into being a landlord. In my mid 20's I bought a townhouse. I moved in two buddies of mine and it was good all around. I got to live with good friends, I got my mortgage paid and my friends got to live in a nicer place than they would have lived in on their own at a cheaper price. It was a win win win.

Fast forward a couple years my dad got laid off and took a job down in South Carolina and had to move. Everything came about kind of quick, the housing market was down and my parents didn't want to deal with having to rent their place so I agreed to rent out mine and in turn rent their house. This way they also had a place to stay when they came back home and for holidays to visit. If you ask my gf, they came home waaaay too much lol as she would have to move out when they came home. My folks are kind of old fashioned like that.

Anyhow, I rented out my place for about 4 years. I think I sort of got lucky, the first tenants I showed the place to rented it. They were a family, took great care of the house, actually did a lot of improvements, and also paid rent on time each month. My rent was $1200, the mortgage was $700 so I built equity and made a bit of money each month.

They stayed for 4 years and then wound up moving to put their kid in a different school. I guess my block has gone downhill a bit and when I went to rent it again I was flooded with applications but all were Section 8.

I was a bit wary of dealing with the government, inspections, I'm guessing having a higher chance of having non paying tenants so I decided to use a property manager second time around.

While sometimes it did feel like a waste of money paying $140 per month to them, it wound up comming in handy. If nothing goes wrong they make an easy $140 for doing nothing more than getting an ACH payment of rent. When things go wrong however they definately earn their money.

So the way section 8 works is the government pays the majority of the rent. In my case $1268 of the $1400 rent. The tenants are responsible for the remainder. First month they were 2 weeks late on their portion.

Then they had complaints about various small things which had I been managing the property I would have had to take care of. In this case the management company had to take care of it, granted I had to pay, but they had a handyman on staff so I wasn't having to find one and then wait at the house for him and schedule the appointment.

Since then I had another freak incident where a schitofrenic man broke out all the windows in my house. WOuld have been a total nightmare, however since I have a mangement company while I was out the $1,000 deductable, I wasn't getting quotes and dealing with the insurance company and having to wait for repair men.

I would definately say for someone who has a good margin on their rental property and also is looking for a more passive type investment and isn't handy a property manager is the way to go.

Very very impressive!!! Managing my properties is a nightmare. Excellent article!!!

Good points. A couple of which can be applied to long-term rentals as well. Managing properties is forever a learning process of efficiency.

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This is such great advice! I believe passive income is the best type of income you can have because you earn it while you're not working! Hiring other managerial companies is a great idea and gives you extra time to do the things you want :)

Sounds like good advice definitely got my attention any more info

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Thanks for the TIPS...

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Do people still use local rental management companies?

All I ever hear is complaints and negative coverage and word of mouth.

Would anyone share their experience?

Thanks for sharing this @bookingteam.com
These tips will be helpful to me.

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Thanks, this post comes in handy just 10 days from my tenant leaving the property. I'll read this post carefully to optimize my property management.

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good question

Cool stuff

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I cant wait to have enough money to have properties so that I can have these problems!
I will follow you bookingteam to learn for all of your great advice! I will need it one day! Thanks for being awesome!
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Mutual funds investment is a lot beneficial to rental property. On an average, we get 2-4% return on a rental property whereas we get 8% or above on a good mutual fund.

Smart idea

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Very good tips indeed, upvoted. I think that a mindset of efficiency and booking team.com will go a long way in fact I like all your tips and will take note. Thanks

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