Field notes from the operators.
Practical writing on property management, software, and the Alberta rental market. No SEO bait.
Five things to look for when screening tenants
A pragmatic checklist that goes beyond credit scores — what we actually weight after seven years of approving applications.
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Maintenance without the Monday-morning fire
How a triage system, photo evidence, and a vendor scorecard turn a chaotic inbox into a calm queue.
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The Alberta condo rental permit, explained
A plain-English walkthrough of recent regulatory changes and what they mean for short-stay operators.
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Why we stopped running open houses
Open houses are theater. Self-guided showings with verified ID convert better and waste less of everyone's Saturday.
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Rent collection as an engineering problem
The day we stopped thinking of late rent as a "tenant problem" and started thinking of it as a notification-system problem.
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The quiet arithmetic of vacancy
A 4% vacancy rate sounds tolerable. Run the numbers on a 30-unit building and tolerable becomes expensive.
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