Property Management Blog

If you’ve been following our discussions on how we provide Total Service to our owners and tenants, you know that PropM, Inc. envisions a new standard of property management in the Portland metropolitan area. We have implemented a structure and a system that allows each of our talented professionals to dedicate themselves to one spe...

Today, we want to talk about our team in general at PropM, Inc. We have built a different model than you’ll find with most of our competitors, and we want to show you how what we’ve done can contribute to better Portland property management.When we decided to start our company, we did so with the intention of making property m...

Renting out a property in the Portland metropolitan area has become more complex than ever. While it may have been as easy as signing a lease and handing over the keys at one point, it’s not that way anymore. There are a number of state, federal, and local laws that are in place to oversee the leasing, marketing, and management of y...

We believe that the COVID-19 pandemic will shift the way rental properties throughout the country are marketed and leased. If you’re working with a Portland property management company that already has a strong technological platform, the change will not be too intense. Your property manager has likely been utilizing online rental p...

When you’re looking for a professional management company to effectively lease and manage your investment property in the Portland metropolitan area, you need a local expert with a lot of professional and industry resources. An investment in technology is critical. Property managers cannot do their jobs effectively or efficiently wi...

The COVID-19 virus is an active and ongoing pandemic, even as many states and cities across the country begin to move towards opening back up. We want to talk to you about how our company is handling our Portland property management services in the middle of this crisis. We hope you and your family are healthy and safe. As informatio...

Pets are beloved family members for most people who have them, and we recognize that when tenants are looking for a new home, they expect to move in with their cats, dogs, or other pets. We believe in providing pet-friendly properties whenever the owner is willing to welcome tenants with animals, and we’ll talk more about pet polic...

Everyone has a different opinion about what a move-in ready home looks like. Sometimes, we work with owners who like to get their properties ready themselves, but we like to be consistent and we want to follow a process. Attracting and retaining high quality tenants is a large part of your ROI, and those tenants are going to expect to mo...

Getting paid is an important part of being a landlord. When you’re managing on your own, you collect the rent yourself, and getting paid is as easy as taking the money from the tenants. When you work with a professional property management company, someone else is collecting the rent for you. Many owners wonder how they get pa...

A great property management company focuses solely on managing properties. It is the only thing we do. The same goes for a real estate company. If they are great at doing real estate transactions, it’s hard to also be great at managing properties.Property Management vs. Real Estate SalesThere are a lot of similarities within the p...