A prospective tenant’s rent references can tell you a lot about their rental history. And, checking a rental history report as part of the screening process is just as vital as verifying a prospective tenant's credit history, employment, and income. Here's why.
Why prorate rent if you don't have to? You may be tempted to collect a full month's rent from every tenant, but there are plenty of valid reasons to prorate rent. Here's what you should know.
Chris Hsu is the CEO & Co-Founder of Azibo, a VC-backed real estate fintech startup focused on simplifying the rental property experience. Prior to Azibo, Chris served as an Advisory Partner at a16z and previously was CEO of Micro Focus, a $4B enterprise software company. He also was COO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he […]
As part of its COVID-19 rules, the city of Los Angeles is prohibiting rent increases for tenants in rent-controlled buildings. Elsewhere rents have gone up by double digits in recent months.
Glasgow’s Climate Action Story By Gavin Slater, Head of Sustainability, Neighbourhoods & Sustainability, Glasgow City Council The City of Glasgow has experienced constant change and evolution. In 1765, James Watt, while walking on Glasgow Green, conceived of the separate condenser to the steam engine and, thus, set about an acceleration of the evolution of the industrial age and inadvertently enabled the acceleration of climate change. In the years that followed, Glasgow became an industrial powerhouse. The ripples from that one moment in time here in Glasgow lapped the shores of the entire world, changing it just as much as it transformed us. Since then we have generated new ways of urban living, but with them has come the generation of the greenhouse gases that have […]