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Dec 23

Online Property Management ImageWhen comparing online property management software solutions, you discover two basic principles fairly quickly:  all of them can take a rent payment, and all of them have branched off in different directions.  All of them are trying to guess what it is that you, the property manager, would probably want to do along with taking a payment.  It is not necessarily my design to discuss all of these directions, but rather to consider a couple of the innovative things that one online property management software, Resident Map,  has considered in defining itself as an innovative leader in the property management industry.

The Resident Map
The first innovation is a patent-pending technology that Resident Map is introducing.  It is the ability to view and manage your community from a map of the community itself.  Mobile home parks, apartment buildings, storage units, multi-user storefronts, and office buildings are all manageable through this interface.
The resident map, a Flash application with multiple options available for each space, is a map of the community or building provided by the owner of that property and enhanced with Resident Map’s patent-pending technology to transform it into a one-stop management tool.  It removes the need for searching through pages and pages of resident names or for using a provided search tool.  It puts the information and the navigation for the vast majority of your tasks on one page, and it does so in a way that makes it very easy to use and very intuitive, even for the novice computer user.

Automation of Charges
Another advantage that sets this software apart from the competition is that Resident Map has is the ability not only to manage the month to month charges statically, but it also allows the property manager the ability to manage the events responsible for those charges.  The automation of charges includes, but is not limited to, automatic late fees, utility reads and rates, rent raises, notices for delinquency, non-sufficient fund (NSF) charges, and mortgage and amortization schedules.  Managing all of these in one location, rather than importing them from a variety of third party solutions, keeps the management of these monthly charges much simpler by putting them all in one place and providing an easy-to-use interface for managing them.  Very few packages on the market offer more than one or two of these, but Resident Map offers all of them.

This was only meant as a small sampling to interest property managers in what is available from Resident Map, the most innovative online property management tool available on the market.

Dec 21

Best House Color to Sell ImageLove at first sight is a concept that applies to the real estate market. So, what is the best house color to sell your home to a love struck buyer?

Best House Color to Sell

When you go to social events, do you make an effort to snazzy yourself up? Of course you do. The simply fact is attraction is a key factor in forming relationships and the same applies to your house. When you put the house on the market, you need to make it look good for the dates with potential buyers. The color of your house can make all the difference.

First, there is no absolutely correct answer to the best color. Instead, the decision depends on the makeup of your home and the surrounding landscape. Let’s take a look at some issues:

1. Whatever color you choose, make sure it doesn’t clash with the other homes in the neighborhood. An otherwise appropriate color could end up making your house an eye-sore.

2. The Roof. What color is the roof on your home? If it is a red tile roof, off-whites are probably going to be the best choice. Dark green will not. Unless you are going to invest money in a new roof, make sure the paint color doesn’t clash with it.

3. Highlights. If there is a particular part of your house that should be emphasized, used light colored paint around it to draw attention.

4. Hide It! Conversely, if there are parts of the house that are mundane, use darker colors to draw attention away from them.

5. On large flat surfaces, such as the side of a garage, keep in mind the color you choose will have a washed out appearance.

Now we get to the fun part. After considering the above issues, make a preliminary list of colors and buy small cans of each color. In a private area of the house, start applying samples strokes a couple feet long and a foot or so wide. Try to paint examples in both shaded areas and those exposed to the sun.

Do not immediately judge the results of your experiments. Instead, wait a few hours for the paint to dry and then start comparing. Dry paint takes on a very different appearance than wet paint.

Once the paint is dry, take a long look at each sample. You will typically find the colors look much different than you thought they would. You may find one color is perfect or you may find something a little different would be best. Either way, you’ll have come up with the best house color to sell your home.

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