Property Management Blog

Blog Post Our 4 Types of Owners
By Progressive Property Management - Monday, January 26, 2015

Our 4 Types of Owners

After spending the last 4 years growing our business from 4 doors under management to over 300, I have found that there are four different types of investment property owners who decide to click or call and use our services. Here are the four types: 1) Someone who has recently...
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Blog Post 80% of Owners Manage Their Own Rentals...Why Would They When We Offer a
By Progressive Property Management - Sunday, January 18, 2015

80% of Owners Manage Their Own Rentals...Why Would They When We Offer a "Happiness Guarantee"?

I was shocked to learn that it is estimated that 80% of investment property owners manage their property themselves. We are talking about a lot of properties and owners. There are over 5,000,000 rental properties in California, so that means nearly 4,000,000 properties are not pr...
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Blog Post Why We Use the MLS and Pay a Commission
By Progressive Property Management - Friday, January 9, 2015

Why We Use the MLS and Pay a Commission

Property management companies use different marketing channels, and offer varying compensation to find tenants for their vacant properties. At Progressive Property Management, Inc., we put all of our listings on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) and offer a commission to the age...
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Blog Post Making Homeowner Association (HOA) Management Progressively Better
By Progressive Property Management - Monday, December 22, 2014

Making Homeowner Association (HOA) Management Progressively Better

Although right now we don
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Blog Post We Believe in Good Faith
By Progressive Property Management - Thursday, November 20, 2014

We Believe in Good Faith

I was in court this week for an eviction. The tenant was an attorney who decided to stop paying his rent and decided to take us to court. We have represented our owners on a number of evictions, and usually these are properties we have inherited and the owners need our profession...
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Blog Post Why Choose Us?
By Progressive Property Management - Thursday, November 20, 2014

Why Choose Us?

We have updated our online brochure and can't wait to share it with all of you. It should be on the website soon. Â http://issuu.com/dhaberer/docs/on-line_broch_pag1/1
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Blog Post Putting the
By Progressive Property Management - Saturday, October 25, 2014

Putting the "Inc." in Progressive Property Management

On January 1, 2015, we will be changing our name from "Progressive Property Management" to "Progressive Property Management, Inc.". Why the change?, you might ask. Since we do business now in four counties, and hope to do business one day in every county of California, we won't...
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Blog Post Using Technology Terrifically
By Progressive Property Management - Monday, October 13, 2014

Using Technology Terrifically

I have a dream. I have a dream, that one day, a property management company will use technology to improve the quality of service and the experience of owners. Most property management companies boast that they collect rents and make disbursements to owners and handle any issues...
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Blog Post Acting Adversely
By Progressive Property Management - Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Acting Adversely

We manage a new property and it was vacant. We received an application from prospective tenants and they seemed to be the "perfect" renters: FICO scores in excess of 800, over $100,000 in the bank, verifiable income 4 times the monthly rent, and they were an older husband and wi...
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Blog Post The 4 Pillars of our Company
By Progressive Property Management - Monday, August 11, 2014

The 4 Pillars of our Company

I read a book recently, "The E-Myth Revisited" and one section about what makes your company unique in the market place in particular grabbed my attention. So I present to you the "4 Pillars of Progressive Property Management. These are the founding concepts of our company, what ...
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