Educational Articles for Landlords and Investors

How To Screen Potential Residents: The Benefit of a Disciplined Approach

The resident screening process is your most valuable tool if you’re setting out to find the ideal residents for your rental property. The process you use to evaluate applicants will be the difference between finding residents that are just fine, and those that are perfect f...

Renting Your House? Do These 7 Things First

Before listing your rental property, it’s important to take the right steps to ensure a smooth and successful experience. A well-prepared home attracts great residents, reduces vacancies, and protects your investment. From insurance and accounting to resident screening and ...

Winter Energy Saving Tips

How to Save on Utilities?Winter isn’t too far away, and with a new season comes new threats to your bank account in the form of expensive utilities, especially as a rental property owner. While you won’t spend as much money on air conditioning as you do in the su...

The Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Law

As a landlord, staying informed about the laws governing rental properties is essential for protecting your rights and maintaining positive resident relationships. One important piece of legislation is the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), which was created to ...

What Do I Do If A Resident Leaves Owing Me Money?

Hey everybody. Matthew Whitaker back here with another Questions Owners Ask. Today's question is, what do I do if a resident leaves owing me a balance? As a rental property owner, collecting unpaid rent from former residents is an incredibly burdensome task. Whatever th...

How to Run a Resident Credit Check

Before you sign any contracts with a new resident, you need to know if they’re going to pay rent on time every month. While there’s no way to actually tell the future, running a resident credit check can give you valuable insights into a person’s financial habit...

5 Tips for Staging a Rental Property

Do you want your rental property to stand out against the competition? One great way to appeal to prospective residents is to stage it with furniture and décor. Staging for rent allows potential residents to imagine themselves living in the space. This is a useful strategy...

How Long Should I Own A Rental House?

How Long Should You Hold Investment Property?What's up, everybody? Matthew Whitaker here, I'm in the car traveling. And I'm with Grey [SP] who challenged me to do a video a day. So, I'm getting it done right now in the car. So, hopefully, the acoustics are okay. T...

What Makes Evernest Different From Other Property Managers

What's up, everybody? Matthew Whitaker here and I wanted to shoot a video on my ride home. This is something we've been doing at Evernest, doing some introspective work, and just wanted to talk to you about it. We've been deciding well, what really makes us different?...

What do you do to screen a resident?

Hey, everybody. Matthew Whitaker here. I'm shooting another video called questions that owners ask. As you can see, the sun's setting on me, and I'm in Dallas, Texas in a hotel room. So I thought of this question. We got this question from an owner recently. "Wha...