Educational Articles for Landlords and Investors

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?...

Should I allow pets in my rental home?

Hey, everybody, Matthew Whitaker here and I'm doing "Questions Owners Ask," and I've got Eddie here to help me. And the question, Eddie, yeah, the question is, "Should I allow pets in my rental home?" So one of the things we've learned is over 60% ...

Why Owning 10 Rental Houses Is Better Than One

So you want to own rental houses? Birmingham, Alabama is a hot market if you want to own rental houses. It has so many benefits to offer an investor. But, I'm not here to talk about why you should buy in Birmingham. I'm here to tell you why you should buy MORE than ...

5 Reasons Renting Your Home Makes Sense

Does Renting Your Home Makes Sense?Most of our articles are biased. However, I have written on the opposite idea of why you WOULDN'T rent your home in a previous article. I think that buys me enough credit here to give you some good reasons you WOULD rent your home. There are...

Top Reasons to Evict a Resident

It is very stressful when you've done all you can do to live up to an agreement you made and the other person seems bent on not living up to the agreement and making your life miserable. If you are a landlord long enough, this is something that is bound to happen with regard ...