Keep It Simple Sweetie - this goes for getting people to turn in applications to live at your complex.
Offering your residents a referral gift is a great way to get the word out about your complex. This can be something as simple as offering a carpet cleaning or a gift card as long as the person they bring to you signs a lease, pays the first month rent and security deposit.
Offer a gift card to a restaurant (especially if the resident has a family).
Or give one big gift out and put every one's name in a drawing for that...
Sometimes giving away something, gets you a great resident...
To get rents, you need renters...with renters you get reasons...and these reasons are what keeps our world going around in circles...
First Time Here?
Welcome to The Leasing Notebook where Rents, Renters and Reasons are a way of life for Property Managers. I would suggest you start with the very first post "The Leasing Notebook". This will tell you a little bit about how this blog works. You can find it in the archives (October, 2007).
A Day in the Life of a Property Manager
It doesn't matter if you manage a 20 unit complex or a 200 unit complex, our jobs are basically the same:
Collecting rents, doing leases and lease renewels, making sure work orders are getting done, taking care of resident complaints, dealing with one excuse after another why the rent isn't paid, answering the phones, talking to prespective tenants, making deposits, moving residents in and moving residents out, paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork, interruption after interrupton, keeping your staff happy, keeping your boss happy, keeping your management company happy and of course, keeping your residents happy.
I created this site to help slow down the craziness (I hope) in your day-to-day life as a Property Manager.
Here you will find simple and inexpensive ways to retain your residents and motivate your staff and a little bit of everything in between. Hopefully, you will find (and share) a laugh along the way.
This is...life as a Property Manager and I hope you join me on an adventure that only other PM's will understand.
Welcome...
Collecting rents, doing leases and lease renewels, making sure work orders are getting done, taking care of resident complaints, dealing with one excuse after another why the rent isn't paid, answering the phones, talking to prespective tenants, making deposits, moving residents in and moving residents out, paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork, interruption after interrupton, keeping your staff happy, keeping your boss happy, keeping your management company happy and of course, keeping your residents happy.
I created this site to help slow down the craziness (I hope) in your day-to-day life as a Property Manager.
Here you will find simple and inexpensive ways to retain your residents and motivate your staff and a little bit of everything in between. Hopefully, you will find (and share) a laugh along the way.
This is...life as a Property Manager and I hope you join me on an adventure that only other PM's will understand.
Welcome...
The Weekly "To-do" List
- Each day I will discuss one of these topics:
- MONDAYS - Keeping your Residents
- TUESDAYS - Move-in Ideas
- WEDNESDAYS - Planning Activities
- THURSDAYS - Motivating your staff
- FRIDAYS - Laugh With Me
- SATURDAYS/SUNDAYS - Q&A's
Thanks For Visiting
2 comments:
I like the incentive program. I have found giving everyone who refers someone (that pays the first month rent and deposit) I get more referrals than by putting everyones name in a drawing. Of course this just works for me. With gas prices being what they are, I find gas gift cards are recieved favorably. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I have found this BLOG very informative and useful!
I like giving gifts that help the property but benefit the resident...like carpet cleaning, new items for the apartment (range hoods, medicine cabinets, etc.)
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