E-Renter News

1. Reducing Crime: Landlords keep neighborhoods safer when they install exterior lighting, keep shrubs and trees trimmed neatly, and provide their tenants excellent locks. By keeping a close eye on their properties and encouraging tenants to do the same, landlords help discourage criminals from gathering in and around their properties. Keeping rental property clean, neat, and in good condition keeps criminals away, too.
2. Providing Jobs: By patronizing local stores and service providers like attorneys, property management companies, landscaping and cleaning companies and contractors, landlords help keep local economies stronger.
3. Assisting Other Landlords: Experienced landlords are often mentors for newer landlords, helping keep another successful business in place.
4. Being Professional Business Owners: By demonstrating good business practices, landlords can be examples for the community. Good landlords make every rental property owner look better; conversely, bad landlords make them all look worse.
5. Improving Quality of Life: By taking good care of their rental property, landlords contribute to an improved quality of life for their tenants and the neighborhood, too. Pride of ownership shows—and it’s contagious!
6. Contributing to Tenants’ and Children’s Well-Being: Safe and attractive housing helps both tenants and their children feel good about where they live. This leads to improvements in other areas of life, like school attendance, grades, lower crime, and even self-esteem.
7. Providing Safe Housing: By law and by doing the right thing, landlords must make the housing they lease safe and maintained. Nobody deserves to live in housing that contains fire hazards or safety problems.
8. Providing Affordable Housing Alternatives: Millions of Americans are having economic difficulties. Landlords help people live well for less money than it takes to own a home.
9. Providing Accessible Housing: For elderly, disabled and other special-needs people, landlords are often the reason they are able to live on their own rather than in group housing. Providing rental housing that is safe and accessible is so important to millions of people.
10. Keeping Families Together: Affordable housing often makes the difference between families staying together and splitting up, or even living on the street. And, landlords who allow pets do a great service by keeping them with their families, rather than in shelters.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 28th, 2010 at and is filed under Landlord Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.