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We help people find beautiful places to live within their budget and property owners find their dream tenants through our services. Whether you are looking for a place to live or hoping to find a great tenant to live in and care for your home - you are half way there! Please contact us and we will address your rental needs to the highest degree of professionalism and detail.
Rental-Apartment Market
Picks Up the Pace By Michael Corkery The nation's rental-apartment market improved for the third consecutive quarter, leading some experts to declare that a recovery is taking hold.Vacancies dropped significantly and rents rose in the nation's top 70 markets, according to new quarterly statistics from REIS Inc., a New York-based real-estate research firm. Houston made one of the most dramatic improvements in the third quarter, as renters displaced by Hurricane Katrina grabbed apartments and shrunk the city's vacancy rate almost overnight.The national vacancy rate fell to 5.9% compared with 6.4% in the second quarter and 6.6% a year earlier. Effective rents, meaning the rents minus concessions, rose by 1.2%. That is up from a 0.6% rise in the second quarter. Concessions -- which include tenant lures such as one month of free rent -- also dropped in some markets. Fewer concessions indicate a market is moving in favor of landlords and away from renters. "It's a good picture," says Lloyd Lynford, chief executive officer of REIS..._read more_ |
Rental property offers more opportunity than passive investmentsBy JOHN ADAMS I get a steady stream of questions about investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts and whether they are better than owning a rental property or a house at the beach. My usual response is that there is a fundamental difference in the two: One is a stock investment and the other is direct ownership of real estate, with all the responsibilities that involves.The problem I have with REITs is the same one I have with stock in general. It is, by definition, a passive investment. The management of the company is not interested in my opinion, and I can't help the company by buying the product. All they really want is my money; in exchange, they give me a return..._read more_ |
Our Services: Management of Multi-Unit Properties Atlantic-West Group. provides management of multiple unit properties in metropolitan Atlanta area. As your agents we will generate income while preserving the value of your investment in the real property. We will use all our resources and best possible means to carry out our responsibilities to the extent of your benefit. We make it our mission to maximize income of clients' properties by controlling operating expenses and optimizing the use of your property. Property owners can count on us to carefully select tenants, hire and supervise employees,budget and control expenses, maintain and modernize the property and analyze income potential . |
Our Services: Tenant Placement We help private owners and management companies alike to find quality tenants for all kinds of properties in all parts of town. We screen our tenants on several levels, including screenings of credit history, rental history, eviction checks, identity theft screeing. Our Tenant Placement service is designed to find quality tenants for vacant properties in record times. |
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