Making Your Rental Property Move-In Ready: An Essential Guide

It's an exciting moment when you're getting ready to welcome new tenants to your rental property. However, it's also a time when it's essential to ensure your property is move-in ready. This involves more than just a fresh coat of paint or a thorough cleaning. Here's a handy guide to help you prepare your rental property for the new tenants and ensure they have a comfortable, pleasant stay.

Ensuring Basic Amenities

First, you must ensure that all basic amenities, like electricity, water supply, heating, and air conditioning, are functioning perfectly. Next, check every switch, faucet, and appliance in the house. If any repair or replacement is needed, get it done immediately. This will help you avoid any inconvenience to the tenant upon moving in and maintain your reputation as a responsible landlord.

HVAC Systems

These systems are the backbone of any comfortable living environment, regulating the temperature and maintaining air quality indoors. Therefore, their optimal functioning is non-negotiable.

Forge a Better Relationship with Customers from the Beginning

Making a good first impression is essential when you're looking for new customers and clients. You want to start off customer relationships on the right foot, which means treading carefully. Getting something wrong could put a new customer off and even mean that they change their mind and go elsewhere. So what can you do to start forging a good relationship with a customer from the very start? Whether you're still negotiating or trying to make a sale, or you're beginning to work with a new client, you should be thinking about how you can set their expectations and keep them happy.

Make Prices Clear

Pricing is a big deal when people are shopping for the goods and services that they need. Whether they're looking for consumer goods or trying to secure a business service, they want to get the best price possible. Making your prices clear and easy to understand can make a big difference. Many professional services achieve this by charging a flat fee, which can be much easier to understand than hourly rates. It allows you to outline exactly what's on offer and the exact price that will be paid. If the scope of the work extends beyond that, it's possible to charge extra.

Ensure Your Customer Understands

How to Boost Your Health in Preparation for the Summer

Being as healthy as possible should be a goal you have and maintain year-round. However, you might slack when you get comfortable or the season changes. 

With the summer approaching and longer days joining us, you might have the motivation to kickstart and boost your health. If so, congratulations, and acknowledging that is the first step. The next step is about inputting the new rules and maintaining them to boost and maintain your health.

Whether you want to understand more about how to safeguard your health or boost your health for the summer, here’s more. 

Watch your lifestyle choices

Your lifestyle choices and preferences might change when the weather is warmer. You might prefer to perform exercise outside or use a motorcycle to get to walk instead of using a car. Either way, it is important to take extra care when you pursue measures that are outside of your usual routine.

How to Attain the Best Outcome from a Legal Dispute

In life, we all experience stressful times. For some, stressful times involve family issues. For others, stressful times involve legal disputes. Although neither is great to deal with, legal disputes can be worse as they could hinder your freedom or finances.

If you are wondering what you are saving money for, it could be for an emergency like a legal issue. You never know when these might pop up. They might occur when you least expect them.

If you are dealing with legal issues and worry you won’t attain the best outcome, here is how to get the best result.

Hire someone with the appropriate experience

Every legal expert has experience and expertise in different fields. Some might be great for divorce but not able to help with a manslaughter claim. 

FUNNY Family Math Word Problems Part #1

Here is the worksheet for tomorrow, kids, so study up (if you teach "real" school, feel free to use this in your classroom). Word problems can be fun!

1. There are 389 members in the homeschool group. Four get kicked out for voicing opinions in a different, secret group. Who was the mole?

2. It costs $50 to rent the church basement for the Valentine's Day party. Kerrie has $23 cash. How did she get that much cash?

3. The Explorer Room has a capacity of 50 people. Kerrie brings herself plus 7 kids. Who is the [bleep] that told her, "It's not a lunchroom."?

4. Sleeping hours at Kerrie's house are approximately 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. If Kerrie nudges her husband 14 times per night for snoring, ... where else do you think he should sleep?

Math is all around you! Homeschooling is easy when you see that!

See part two for more!

originally posted February 12, 2012