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Landlords want rents to be as high as possible.  Tenants want rents to be as low as possible.  So somewhere in the mix, rents are established that meet the needs of both parties…or so it would seem.  The free market of housing works pretty well most of the time.  But sometimes, for sociological reasons, things don’t work out well for either party.     The Salt Lake Tribute recently posted this political cartoon lampooning the plight of tenants. It made me laugh.  But the caption at the bottom was disturbing. […]

Property Management is something of a renaissance profession.  It requires a knack for accounting, people skills, and a healthy ability to accurately predict risk.  I find the work intellectually fascinating as it merges sociology and economics into a real world experience.  If you ever want to know what is really going on in the world, become a property manager.   One of the great challenges that landlords face is dealing with trouble tenants.  In our 11 year history of managing property, we have only had to formally evict one of […]