Rather than take the “rear view mirror” approach to winding down another year and another decade, why not take the “VISIONARY” approach to life and look at the opportunities ahead. Look at it as we are offered the opportunity to a fresh NEW YEAR and the beginning of a NEW DECADE in which you, me and everyone else can make a difference!

Establish a NEW VISION for 2010 and the 2nd decade of the newest century. Create a dynamic plan for your personal life, and business situation. Create not only a NEW YEAR’s resoltuion, but a NEW DECADE resolution! Whether it be personal or professional or both, creat a VISION for yourself… write it down…and post it everywhere around your house. Doing so will bring a daily reminder of the goals that you have established for yourself and will assist you in keeping those goals. Too often we create goals in which we desire to achieve, but like always, life gets in the way…we get busy…and our goals turn out to be one big failure. A failure that usually becomes an obstacle for many to create a new vision or goal somewhere down the road and prevents them from achieving success!

So as we embark on a journey into 2010, we at Hart Realty & Property Management would like for all to know that it is OUR VISION to prosper our clientele and deeply root a long lasting profitable relationship together with our owners and a long lasting relationship with our tenant family as well.

WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL A VERY BLESSED NEW YEAR AND NEW DECADE~!

From Your family at Hart Realty & Property Management

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So what does this mean to the public? If you own a Single Family Home in Carolina Forest, tenants are looking to rent homes similar to yours! More specifically, the prospective tenants that we have call us on a daily basis are looking for these properties to rent.

Now most would say, why do I need a Myrtle Beach Property Management company when the demand is out there and I can rent it myself and save myself the management fee. To this I say…ABSOLUTELY YOU CAN! You can also fix your own car, replace your own roof, represent yourself in court when jail is pending and you can probably even perform surgery on yourself too!

The point I’m driving here is, we all have a profession. Yes, you can do anything yourself if you try hard enough, but would you rather a professional Myrtle Beach Property Management company handle an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? I mean it is the same as if you were being sued for hundred’s of thousands of dollars, would you represent yourself in court or hire the cheapest attorney? Well, some might, but the smart are going to go after the best to assure themselves the best opportunity of protecting their interest in the matter. In this case, it just happens to be a home/property that is worth plenty of money.

So I ask, do you really want to manage the property yourself when there are professional tenants out there these days just preying on the “FOR RENT BY OWNER”?

If your situation requires you to hire a Property Management company in Myrtle Beach, then Hart Realty & Property Management is the company you are looking for. To find out more about our company feel free to visit our website at www.HartRealtyOnline.com

Hope to see your property on our management program soon!

My reply is always…”I LOVE IT!”

The shock on their face is PRICELESS! (just like in the MASTERCARD commercial! The face of shock is usually followed by the next typical question of “REALLY?”

So I answer…”YES…Really!”

Here’s the reason why…

I know the reason why everyone is shocked by the answer to my question. It’s usually because the misconception is that being a “LANDLORD” is problematic, a headache, and something that most people DON’T want to do. They don’t want to deal with tenants, they don’t want to deal with late night calls from tenants complaining about some maintenance issue, they don’t want to attempt to collect rents, have to deal with evictions, and deal with the mess of a problematic tenant!

Guess what? WE DO~! But the great thing is…WE really don’t!

The secret to success in Property Management is SYSTEMS~! Like most anything in business, you MUST develop systems, define them to understand, implement them, and refine as you go along.

I call this my DEFINE & REFINE Method.

For more information on our SYSTEMS pertaining to our Myrtle Beach Property Management or Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals program, call us at 843-903-HART (4278) or email us Manage@HartRealtyOnline.com

Hart Realty & Property Management…”THE Company you can TRUST” for all your Myrtle Beach Property Management and Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental needs!

Fire Safety Inspections:

When owning investment property, the biggest concern one should have is whether or not the home is being properly maintained, cared for, and PROTECTED! At Hart Realty & Property Management, we take great pride in concerning ourselves with ALL THREE.

Focusing on the PROTECTED aspect, we conduct a Fire Safety Inspection with EVERY property that we take on to our Myrtle Beach Property Management, with NO EXCEPTIONS!

One question we get asked alot is Why we do this and no one else does? Well, I can’t speak for why others don’t, but what I can tell you is that WE do it because it protects both your home and the future tenant that will reside in your property. Yes, we ensure that we protect the home, but we also like to take care of and protect our tenants as well. Our tenants are our future and our business (Our = Both you the property owner and us), without them, neither entity gets to make $. It is something that we believe is the recipe for a long lasting relationship with both owners and tenants alike. When the tenant knows they are moving into a safe property and they are being taken care of, they are less likely to want to relocate elsewhere upon lease fulfillment and they also attract others to our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental Program as referred business.

With each and every Fire Safety Inspection we conduct, we send a trained and qualified individual in to the home to conduct an extensive inspection  as per a checklist guide from the U.S. Labor Department’s OSHA regulation (Occupational Safety & Health Administration).

After the inspection, we receive a detailed analysis of the home and it’s condition relating to its safety condition. If there are any deficiencies noted on the inspection, we inform the owner of the required repairs necessary to bring the home up to regulation. Once complete, you can rest assured that both your home and the tenant are safe.

Why is this important? First off, your investment property is most likely your most expensive asset you own. Whether it is a inexpensive 1 bedroom or a luxury home, it is something that NEEDS to be PROTECTED. Secondly, we also value the lives of the future tenants that will reside in your home. In case a fire should ever happen in the home, we want to ensure that the tenants have the best chance of survival through early detection and alert and in turn the Fire Department can be notified immediately to remedy the situation as soon as possible.

If your Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental has never had a Fire Safety Inspection and it is older than 1 year old, you need to call Hart Realty & Property Management.

REMEMBER…We value your home as if it were our own!

If you would like more information on our Myrtle Beach Property Management or a Fire Safety Inspection for our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals, contact us at 843-903-HART (4278) or email us Manage@HartRealtyOnline.com

Hart Realty & Property Management…”THE Company you can TRUST” for all your Myrtle Beach Property Management and Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental needs!

Quality tenants is what EVERY Landlord is in search for for a property that they either own or lease/manage for someone else. For some, finding quality tenants is like a crap shoot or Russian Roulette. You never know what you are going to get until it’s too late. But yet, it seems as though from the outside some people get good tenants and never have problems. First off, never having problems is wrong, you are always going to have an issue or two here and there, but how is it that it seems like some people get “The Good Tenants?”

How are these people getting “The Good Tenants?” For some it’s just LUCK! For companies like ours, we pride ourselves on leasing our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals to “The Good Tenants!”

How you ask? Well, you might say that a small portion of finding “The Good Tenants” has to do with luck, but mostly it’s because we conduct a VERY THOROUGH screening process. One that has a 5 point check that offers us the ability to obtain as much information as we can about our prospective tenants for our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals.

Having the information is only the 1st step. As a Landlord of Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals, you need to know how to process the information and know what to look for in order to determine whether or not they are “The Good Tenants” that you are looking for. You need to be able to identify the positive aspects about their application information and in turn identify the “risks” associated. Once you identify the risks, you must determine if the tenant poses too much risk to rent to or mitigate the risk in some form (in accordance with your state Landlord & Tenant Act).

Conducting a thorough screening processing and learning to process the information that comes back to you from the screening process, you will find that you will start obtaining “The Good Tenants” that everyone is in search of and you will also start to see that doing Myrtle Beach Property Management is not as tedious or cumbersome as originally believed to be. Once again, define your systems, implement them, and refine them if need be and start to make it a continuous cycle and you will see how easy managing your Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals can be.

For more information on how we conduct our Myrtle Beach Property Management or Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals, feel free to contact us today!

Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you.

Hart Realty & Property Management…”THE Company you can TRUST” for all your Myrtle Beach Property Management and Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental needs!

When having your Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental professionally managed or even if you plan on managing your property yourself (*Only recommend if you have extensive background in managing properties and tenants), one key component that a landlord MUST implement into its system of management is inspections!

Failure to implement inspections into your systems can (and most likely will) cause major problems in the long run. As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, management is the integral part of a successful relationship between managing Long Term Rentals in Myrtle Beach and tenant relations. Reason being is, we have found that any tenant that has been failed to be managed will eventually lead astray. Failure to inspect the premises will lead to major problems in the end.

Inspecting the property on a regular basis allos for the following:

1. Let’s the tenant know that you care about the property, which in turn will subversively force the tenant to pay better attention to their living conditions.
2. Allows for the landlord to identify any major issues or problems well in advance before the issue/problem becomes a major costly matter.
3. Keeps the tenant on their toes in letting them know that they can’t “Do as they please!” and should they, you can correct them immediately.
4. Keeps a time line of conditions as to the property. What this means is that by doing a series of inspections prior to and during occupation and after the tenant vacates will help in identifying the responsibility of the damages that are present after the tenant vacates the premises.

We have found that strict and stringent inspections from start to finish is THE KEY ingredient to successful management. For additional information on Myrtle Beach Property Management services, CALL US TODAY at 843-903-HART (4278) or email us at Manage@HartRealtyOnline.com

Hart Realty & Property Management…”THE Company you can TRUST” for all your Myrtle Beach Property Management and Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental needs!

Because of our thorough process, we have been fortunate to not have to Evict a tenant in our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental department in well over 2 years! How do we do it you ask?

We conduct the following:

1. Federal Credit Bureau Check

2. Federal background check. This is very important because most if someone has a criminal background or is wanted in abother state, they typically won’t show up in most “state” checks which most local government agencies and background checks will only have access to.

3. Employment Verification. We confirm employment and salary from the prospects supervisor and ask for a recommendation from their supervisor.

4. Reference Checks. Though we do not hold much weight in references, as we all know most people are not going to provide references of people that will not speak highly of them, but what we are looking for here is whether or not a tenant prospect can provide 3 references. Our belief is, that if a tenant prospect looking to reside in a Myrtle Beach Long Term Rental cannot provide us with 3 people that cannot speak highly of them, then we are not interested in them residing in one of our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals.

5. Debt to Income verification. Like most lending institutions, we will conduct a debt to income verification on all our prospects. This will provide us with the ability to determine whether or not the prospect will be able to afford the rental they are applying for both now and during the entire term of the lease.

These 5 criteria coupled with standard criteria that provides us with the necessary information to determine where the prospect will stand with a security deposit has afforded us the ability to manage some VERY QUALIFIED tenants.

If you would like to know more about our Myrtle Beach Property Management services or our Myrtle Beach Long Term Rentals, please feel free to call our office and speak with one of our licensed Property Managers at 843-903-HART (4278) or email us directly at manage@hartrealtyonline.com

For the Finest in Long Term Rentals in Myrtle Beach, choose one of the top Myrtle Beach Property Management Companies on the Grand Strand…HART REALTY & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC!

Here’s the reason why…Most of the time, the property owner does not have the experience with screening tenants to ask them the important questions that will initially assist them in weeding out the “non-desireable” tenants to the quality ones. Additionally, they typically don’t conduct, or have access to, the extensive screening process required to properly determine whether a tenant is desireable to have occupy their residence. Most of the time, the homeowner is so excited that they have found someone to rent their property that they just take the first person who says “They want it” and puts down the security deposit and rent amount requested!

What most fail to realize is that the typical “Less than desireable” tenants prey on the properties that are “RENT BY OWNER.” For the exact reason that is previously mentioned is because they don’t have access to nor typically conduct the necessary screening process to weed them out. They know that as long as they say “They Love your house” and have the requested Security Deposit and first months rent, that that property owner will be excited to rent to them.

So what’s the answer? HIRE A PROFESSIONAL MYRTLE BEACH PROPERTY MANAGER!

O.K., I know the question you are going to ask or comment you are going to say…“I’m already in the negative (or barely cashflowing) on this property, how am I going to pay a property manager?”

So here’s my answer…Don’t look at what position you are in “cashflow” wise when determining whether or not you are going to hire a professional Myrtle Beach Property Manager. Look at the overall numbers for what the cost is going to be to properly protect one of your most expensive investments… Here’s what I mean:

Ask your Myrtle Beach Property Management team what their fee/charge is going to be? Usually it’s a % of the gross monthly rent. Calculate all the charges and see what the cost is going to be for the year. For a property that is bearing a gross monthly rent of $1,000/month, the total yearly cost for professional Myrtle Beach Property Management will be less than $2,000 for the year.

From my experience of dealing with Myrtle Beach property owners who had attempted to manage their properties themselves and have had a “bad experience,” the cost of the repairs typically well exceeds $2,000.

Look at it like this…It will probably cost you more than $2,000 just to re-paint that entire home. It will cost you more than $2,000 to replace all the carpet in that home. Think about if you have to replace the carpet and re-paint, which when dealing with a “horror” tenant, this is what you can expect…PLUS potential loss rent, court costs, and loss of time from property being off the market…

So I ask you, “Is it worth the LESS THAN $2,000 for the year for a professional Myrtle Beach Property Management team to protect your INVESTMENT!

Here is the one thing you need to remember when hiring your Myrtle Beach Property Management team…Ask them what their screening process is, what their rent collection process is, what their eviction process is, what process do they utilize when the need to put a tenant in collection is, and MOST OF ALL…Do they have a legitimate Office Location to conduct business from?

Feel free to give us a call and we will be more than happy to discuss how WE can protect your investment to the best opportunity available! Remember, your property is an investment…PROTECT IT!

In Real Estate sales, the “Rule of Thumb” is “Curb Appeal!” As the owner or the agent of the property For Sale, you want to WOW the potential buyer so that they are not only impressed with their First Impression of the home, but also propels them to inquire further. Much is the same for our Long Term rentals in Myrtle Beach. Our standard is to have a home presentable to the point that it not only IMPRESSES the potential tenant, but also makes them HAVE TO HAVE IT! We look to give little reason for a potential tenant to “not want” the home unless it does not suit their needs beyond measures we cannot control (i.e. size, layout, affordability, etc.)

Not only does providing a CLEAN and presentable home offer itself the ability to rent more quickly, it also leaves the tenant a “STANDARD” by which you can hold them to. As long as you identify that the standard by which the tenant has procurred the home MUST be maintained during the term of the tenancy AND upon vacating the home after the full and faithful execution of the lease, you will find that your tenants will start to become more quality tenants in THEIR living standards. One point to remember with this though is, you CANNOT just ASSUME that because you provided them a clean and presentable home, that they, the tenant, will just automatically keep the home clean and presentable. You still need to check up on your tenant bhy doing periodic drive-by checks on the property/home and some sort of regular inspections of the interior of the home.

For more information on how WE maintain quality tenants and how WE will keep your Long Term rentals in Myrtle Beach in a quality condition so that your investment remains an investment and not a DEBT, call or email to speak with one of our Myrtle Beach Property Management Team members!