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/ 2020 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
GETTING GREAT TENANTS! Do you have a rental house? CHECK!
colors and variations. Put it in the whole house Do you want quality tenants that will pay on time including bedrooms (I see the cringes about not having carpet in the bedroom, but please trust and take good care of your investment? CHECK! me) - because LVP is the flooring that brings Are you ready to go to market? Uh, maybe? all the tenants to the yard – and they’re like, it’s All landlords hope for that perfect tenant who will better than carpet! take great care of the property inside while paying on time and being good neighbors. Qualities like Fresh Feeling Interiors this are not limited by income brackets either; No Light, bright, and refreshing is what we’re after. matter what size and price range your rental is, Stay away from color on the walls – yes you with there is a fabulous tenant waiting to rent from the seafoam green paint, and I see you over there you. But attracting this caliber of tenant requires about to put that vintage blue on an “accent wall”. providing a home that appeals to them. So, what Here’s the deal: most tenants understand they exactly do quality tenants look for? don’t get to re-paint the rental, and most won’t think they can ask you to change the colors either. Good, Clean Flooring for Scooting Across So, stay away from yellow beiges. Be better than Whether your rental has carpet or a hard surface the institutional white. And it doesn’t matter how flooring (such as Luxury Vinyl Plank i.e. LVP) much Valspar is promoting the Pantone color of it needs to be presentable. Something a tenant the year…it’s a hard pass in a rental. You want won’t mind walking barefoot on or letting their a “neutral color” that adds interest while being kids crawl across. If the carpet stains keep compatible with any tenant’s personal style. coming back after a shampoo (something that Let me introduce you to GREIGE <pronounced doesn’t happen with LVP) it’s time to replace it GURAYJZE>. That’s right, the perfect blend of gray and beige that works in both warm and (like with LVP). Hmm, did I mention LVP? cool home decors. While I’m partial to Amazing In all seriousness, carpeting in a rental is only Gray by Sherwin Williams, lovely alternatives are good for about 5 years max and if you’re allowing Worldly Gray and Repose Gray. pets in the rental (another great way to increase the value of the home!), potentially less. Carpet Oh! And Greige walls with a Gray wood LVP retains smells from things such as cooking, flooring and white trim, well you can’t see it but kids, and critters, and it’s never going to be fully I’m doing that Italian food kiss thing – Bellissima! clean as dirt works its way below the carpet and into the pad. On the other hand, an LVP flooring Things That Look New, Or At Least New-er will last about 15 years or longer with minimal Make simple and inexpensive updates to your maintenance. Tenant’s love it because it’s easy sink faucets. Period. It seems like such a small to clean (a benefit when figuring a security thing, but that 40-year-old crystal knob faucet deposit return) and NO SMELLS! It’s waterproof, handle gives you away every time… I’ll bet it’s even scratch resistant, and comes in a variety of wood got some gold detailing in it? Change out the bath re s i de nt i al | P RO PE RT Y MA N A G E ME N T | c o mmerc ia l | fea tu re
