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Property Management Considerations for College Housing

Property Management is not easy, but there are ways to make your job easier if you will understand a little about human psychology and work with the tenants whether they be business owners or residents. One group of properties that is an industry sub-sector is managing properties for college housing. The students will be renting the properties for the school year about nine months. So you need to average your costs over twelve months and total it up and then divide by nine for your costs.

Next you need to figure in the problems that occur and get busy signing people up for next year. Of course remember these are party animal kids and therefore you will need a substantial deposit from them up front and guarantees from their folks that you will be paid. If anything goes wrong you zap the deposit and let the parents know that one more incident and they are gone. Of course all this must be done swiftly, efficiently and without aggressive action. Warnings will help and nice polite staff is the key to diverting potentially hostile problems from these kids.

Being on good terms with the College or University is certain to help fill up the buildings thru referrals from the student information offices. Finding additional properties can be tough if the area is not use to massive numbers of young adults in the area. Most citizens nearby will complain and attempt to prevent that type of usage, as it adds lots of traffic, parties and just over congestion to the area. These are all interesting considerations to be discussed when contemplating property management strategies for College Housing Units.

 the Author  Lance Winslow

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