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Commercial property tips can often be helpful to commercial property owners, whether your business is hotels, apartments or retirement communities. Various commercial property tips include safety concerns and injury prevention, marketing ideas and ways to make your properties more environmentally friendly. Need to cut down on pool injuries or make your property child safe? Need advice about better housekeeping or hotel restaurants? Thinking of installing vinyl flooring or offering pet friendly or furnished apartments? Want to go green, interesting in building a NORC or need help marketing a small apartment? With all of the competition in today’s property world, commercial property tips can provide inspiration and assistance. In the challenging world of commercial property ownership, Reliable Water Services offers many options to make your job easier! Reliable Water Services has affordable, comprehensive packages which include around the clock technicians, helpful customer service and peace of mind.

Apartments & Property Management

How to Handle Bad Tenants: 5 Pieces of Advice for Landlords

Managing the regular needs of renters is demanding enough and bad tenants only add extra stress.

Building ownership means you’re on the clock 24/7. When a tenant needs something, you must answer the call. Bad tenants only contribute extra chaos and negativity into your jam-packed schedule. Spot the warning signs of bad tenants and learn the skills to handle difficult situations and you’ll see a great benefit your business and your surrounding “good” tenants. Understanding the right way to interact with bad tenants is vital to the success of your properties and the overall housing experience for your other renters. After all it only takes one bad apple, or in this case, bad tenant, to spoil the whole building.

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Apartments & Property Management, Industry News & Tips

Understanding Landlord Rights: Protect Yourself & Your Renters

A strong understanding of landlord rights will help you better manage your properties while fostering positive relationships with your tenants.

Landlord rights are laws and rules established to protect housing managers and their property. A fair rental agreement should protect both landlord rights and tenant rights, ensuring a healthy landlord-tenant relationship and clear communication between parties. As a property manager or building owner, you must find the balance between accommodating the needs of tenants and protecting your property (and your wallet). Here’s what you need to know about landlord rights.

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Apartments & Property Management, Industry News & Tips

Managing a Child-Safe Property: Attract Families to Your Rentals

Attract renters by ensuring your properties are kid-friendly and child-safe!

Property owners know, every apartment must be safe for every age (and the Fair Housing Act protects all families who wish to rent). Rather than looking at child-safety as another task on your to-do list, savvy landlords know that appealing to families is important. Families with kids are often stable, responsible renters—here’s how to create a child-safe property to attract great tenants.

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Energy Savings & Money Savings, Water Heater Damage

How To Winterize Outdoor Machines & Equipment

Spend a few hours winterizing your expensive outdoor equipment to make it last longer and perform better. Save money and avoid costly repairs with these maintenance tips.

Does your business have green space to maintain? Whether it’s a simple front lawn or a complex landscape design, there’s a good chance you are using some type of machinery to keep the grass and other vegetation looking trimmed and tidy. When winter approaches, don’t forget that those outdoor machines require extra attention before storing them for the season. A little preventative maintenance goes a long way in ensuring they are working properly when you need them again in spring!Read more

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Apartments & Property Management, Industry News & Tips

Furnished Apartments: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Is the extra money and effort it takes to furnish an apartment worth the work?

Property owners often make tough decisions as to what perks they offer their renters. For many years, utilities-included rental options (heat, energy and water) were a competitive advantage. Nowadays, additional specialized markets have arisen to address more specific renter needs (like small-space studios), so property owners must adapt and offer new services to fit these changing market needs. One such marketplace is fully furnished apartments. Some renters don’t want the hassle of moving furniture into an apartment or worrying about choosing décor. Others have temporary situations, like work or school, which makes a fully furnished apartment very appealing. But is the the extra money and time it takes to furnish an apartment worth it for landlords?

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Industry News & Tips, Restaurants

Preparing to Sell Your Restaurant – What You Should Know

The decision to sell your restaurant isn’t likely to happen on a whim. It takes careful planning, as well as time to get your affairs in order.

Every restaurant owner thinks about selling at one time or another. But even if your restaurant is a red hot success and buyers are lined up at the door, figuring out how to sell a restaurant isn’t as simple as selling a home or a car. It often takes several months to make a sale, and it can pay to start preparing a full year in advance. Understanding how to sell a restaurant is about more than just having your paperwork in order and upgrading a few appliances. It takes marketing savvy, knowledge of your business and sometimes even professional help to get your restaurant in shape to sell and fetch a price that will make you happy.

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Hotels & Hospitality, Restaurants

The Importance of In-House Restaurants To Hotel Profits

Take the time to go beyond customer expectations. Hotels CAN offer much more than great room service.

On the list of reasons to stay at your hotel, your restaurant is likely ranked pretty low. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Hotels are expected to have restaurants even if most guests think they only need them for breakfast and room service.  The rooms division of a hotel will always be the leader in profitability but other revenue streams can make the difference between scraping by and looking to expand. Taking the time to make your hotel’s restaurant stand out can mean not only keeping more guest dollars in house, but representing your local community.

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Hot Water, Water Heater Damage, Water Heater Safety, Water Heaters

Your Water Heater Can EXPLODE! Mythbusters, Revisited

Mythbusters confirmed it. Everything you need to know about exploding water heaters!

Hot water is as simple as turning on a faucet—it’s a basic part of living as a human being in the developed world. It hasn’t always been that easy though. Before the modern standard of water heating units in every building and home, hot water was considered a luxury; it was not a necessity, nor a standard. Happily for us modern folk, hot water is readily available and no longer a luxury.

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Energy Savings & Money Savings, Hot Water, Water Heater Repairs

Proactive Plumbing Maintenance Tips To Prevent Common Commercial Plumbing Issues

Preventative plumbing maintenance is the first step to avoiding the worst problems.

Plumbing problems are a fact of life—they’re going to happen, no matter what. You have one of two options: wait for problems to manifest and try to deal with the unexpected expenses (and headache), or you can be proactive about your plumbing.

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