Making your home safe for a newborn or toddler is vital and it can be daunting to know what changes you are and are not allowed to make to your rental property. Here are some ways you can child proof your rental property without compromising your lease agreement: 1. Fix furniture  If you decide you want to fix any furniture to the walls, make sure you still seek approval from your landlord or property manager who will guide you through the correct process. Remember that you will have to repair any surfaces at the termination of your lease. For more information, visit Consumer Product Safe ..read more

Over the years, we’ve become more familiar with the term Proptech, the fusion of technology and property management. We’ll hear it more and more because it delivers significant financial benefits to property managers. Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, so real estate technology is often thought of as overlapping with financial technology. Present-day digital real estate technologies could therefore include property management using: Digital dashboards Smart home technology Research and analytics Listing services/tech-enabled brokerages Mobile applications Residential and com ..read more

Winter is almost here, but that doesn’t mean you have to hang up the tool belt. You can keep the DIY going with winter home improvement projects. Do these without propping open doors or freezing your fingers. #1 Update Your Laundry Room You can start switching out the lights.  An easy fix, in almost any room, is to switch out the light fixtures and upgrade with something a bit more stylish. We often don’t think of lighting in the laundry room, but new fixtures can change the mood, look and vibe of your laundry space in no time at all. To make your laundry space more functional, you ..read more

The last thing you want to deal with as a landlord are late-paying tenants. No landlord in Richmond wants to have to chase down their tenants each month, asking them to pay what’s due and owing for rent. The best way to handle late-paying tenants is to prevent it from happening in the first place. How is this possible, though? Train your tenants to pay on time by incorporating these property management strategies that encourage good payment habits: Clearly Communicate Your Expectations You must assert your authority while still maintaining your friendliness with tenants.  You can achiev ..read more

Harvard Health reported in an article that giving thanks can make you happier. They note that being grateful makes you feel more positive emotions: “In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships”. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia, which means grace, graciousness, or gratefulness. In some ways, gratitude encompasses all of these meanings. What we are ..read more

Managing a property is not an easy task. It calls for a good amount of commitment on the part of the owner due to the need to carry out constant management tasks like chasing late payments, ensuring the welfare of the tenants, performing regular inspections, and so on. An experienced property manager is privy to up-to-date, vital information necessary to run the business smoothly. Property managers have access to a wealth of real estate resources that are key to the effective marketing of the property. This is not something that one can say of self-management, which could ultimately impact ren ..read more

Ask your landlord what you can and cannot do All too often, we assume we won’t be allowed to paint, change curtains, or put nails in walls, check the terms of your lease first and don’t just assume that you can’t push things a bit. If you think you’ll be there for a while and want to change something, put it to your landlord and make your case as to why something should change. It can add value to their property after all. They probably won’t be willing to change the flooring or anything major like that, but if it is particularly bad, you can always offer to cover a third or half of the cost w ..read more

If you think of cemeteries as being eerily quiet places where nothing ever happens then you should plan a visit to one of these sites, where the stories just keep racking up. From strange inscriptions to apparitions, Connecticut’s cemeteries are definitely not somewhere I’d want to be at night. But if you love paranormal exploration you can add these to your bucket list. Mountain Grove Cemetery (Bridgeport) This scenic cemetery was founded by PT Barnum, whose grave is now here as well. Legend has it this spot is haunted by the spirits from a Native-American village that was once here, and al ..read more

New London Ledge Light House Well, I must say that the New London Ledge Light House is the locally most famous place for the ghost in the world. The ghost’s name is Ernie who has been haunting the house allegedly. The coastguard has a crew to the duty at that place who has even reported to the unexplained knockings that take place during the nighttime. The area is haunting consistently with the closing the opening in the repeated pattern. The turning on and off the television sporadically and many other accidental removals o ..read more

It’s Halloween time, and what can be better than creepy stories, haunted properties, and mysterious trails.  During this month you’ll can read a series of creepy stories. Many times when one thinks of a “cursed” and “Connecticut” the mind immediately goes to lonely, abandoned places like Dudleytown, allegedly a site of much suffering. Rarely does a location steeped in wealth, affluence and luxury seem capable of bringing doom and woe to those who live there, but such is the case of Dunnellen Hall. Dunnellen Hall Haunted lighthouses and mansions – the perfect recipe for a gripping read, a ..read more