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5 Tasks Every Property Manager Should Delegate to Grow Successfully

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Ethan Lieber
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March 13, 2019
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When you began as a landlord, you probably wanted to manage everything yourself.

5 Things Every Property Manager Should Delegate to Grow Successfully

You may have done it to keep overhead costs down or because you weren’t sure exactly what tasks are required from a landlord on a day-to-day basis.

When you have a house or two under your belt, nevertheless, you likely discovered that the situation isn’t as workable as you first thought.

You end up taking an excessive amount of time from this day to check out property issues, deal with tenant billing, or spending hours figuring out screening.

5 Tasks Every Property Manager Should Delegate to Grow Successfully

Rather than forcing yourself to do everything, think about assigning these 5 property management jobs.

1. Bookkeeping

If you aren’t an accountant by trade, keeping track of income, expenditures, and other associated property fees can be a full-time job by itself.

Should you stay with a handful of properties, you may not need to delegate bookkeeping tasks, but if you entered the landlord business to cultivate your property portfolio, a bookkeeper is essential.

2. Marketing

Marketing is another specialized skill that may essentially be a full-time job.

Content advertising paid search engine marketing, local advertising, direct marketing, and search engine optimization are all strategies that help improve your house’s presence.

You may only require marketing services when you have open listings, so it is reasonable to delegate this job to a contractor or consultant who manages it on an off-the-shelf foundation.

As soon as it’s possible to do your marketing, it requires a significant amount of investigating to figure out the most cost effective methods.

When you delegate this task, you get that technical expertise on hand in any way times.

3. Rental billing

Wish to avoid the time necessary to chase tenants around to pick up payments?

Electronic billing services geared toward landlords provides you with a means to cut out that hassle .

These systems not only eliminate the time necessary to get payments from your tenants, but it also supplies you with a way to rapidly deposit the amount into your operating accounts .

Mobile deposits eliminate some hassles connected with checks, but it still requires action on your part.

4. Tenant screening

Tenant screening takes up a substantial part of time.

Additionally, it is important that you understand how to accurately read the info on credit reports, background checks, along with other screening information. Instead of working with it yourself, third party solutions can handle the checks for you and provide you accurate feedback to assist you pick the best tenants.

You would like to get the full tenant image so that you don’t encounter heavy renter turnover.

5. Maintenance

5 Things Every Property Manager Should Delegate to Grow Successfully

Even when you’re a DIY master, then it is useful to have contractors available for plumbing, electrical work and general contracting.

Up-keeping properties quickly and efficiently is important for a lot of reasons, such as: preventing further damage, assessing the current state of the house, and ensuring renter happiness (which leads to decreased turnover).

Between finding a trustworthy maintenance business in a short length of time, negotiating a reasonable speed, and working with everybody’s schedules so that the maintenance team has access to the home, it is easy to become overwhelmed and end up frustrating your tenants. A 3rd party maintenance coordination company can take that off your plate, be it after hours, 24/7 emergency, or full time coordination.


ABOUT LATCHEL:

At Latchel we take over property maintenance coordination giving property managers the time to focus on more important things.

We do this through our 3 core products:

  1. Our after hours emergency service, which ensures you are never woken up in the middle of the night for a maintenance call again;

  2. Our 24/7 emergency service, night or day, all day, every day, we’ve got you covered;

  3. Our premium service, which is an all encompassing maintenance coordination product.

Across our reviews, we boast a 4.7 out of 5 stars for tenant satisfaction. Property managers who have switched to Latchel, on average, have reduced their time spent on maintenance to only 15 mins per day for every 100 units.

We improve the maintenance experience for everyone because at Latchel, we truly believe that you cannot get better by staying the same.

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