Key Advantages of Having a Property Manager:

• Total Management serves as Intermediary between Landlord and Tenant.
• Total Management alleviates hassles and worries associated with being a property owner.
• Tax Write-Offs Remain In Tact.
• Management of Tenant Selection/Screening process.
• Management of repairs.
• Dealing with troublesome tenants.
• Management of distant rental properties

Property Management is the means by which you turn investment real estate into money. Property management is not just leasing a property to a renter and walking away. It is not just collecting a rent check every month.

Management is the daily maintenance of the tenant-landlord relationship. This includes communication, property maintenance, periodic inspections, repairs and even improvements. Managing rental property requires diligent care.

What we do is time-consuming, exhausting and potentially litigious. We have developed management techniques and systems that help our clients and ourselves to avoid needless liabilities and hassles.

Total Management handles a multitude of tasks and people: phone calls, leasing and sales appointments, tenant requests for information, late night emergency calls, rent collection, evictions, work orders, maintenance, contractors, city, county and other government entities, licensing, inspections, fire marshals, advertising, trash collection, housing authority, lawyers, peddlers, agents, cable guys, phone companies, gas and other utilities, insurance claims, the EPA, etc. etc. etc. We do this so you don't have to and can continue to do what you do to earn a living.

Don't try this at home, we're professionals.

Being a landlord who has lots of time, lives near the rental property, has excellent tenants, has a property that never has anything wrong with it, and in a rental good market/area should take no effort at all. However, it is not always the case that those situations are all true. Being a landlord sometimes means that you need to become an expert in the following areas:

• Comparable market pricing
• Federal, state, and local housing laws
• Federal, state, and local landlord/tenant law
• Lease contract negotiations
• Credit and background verification
• Rent collection
• Late rent collection procedures
• Security deposit regulations
• Providing prompt everyday repairs and upkeep
• Quick & cost-efficient repairs of major items

The laws concerning Landlord/Tenant rules and regulations take up over 110 pages in the Annotated Code of Maryland. The typical punishment prescribed by the Maryland Courts for landlords who do not follow these rules require that the landlord make a payment to the tenant of up to three times the amount of the tenant's security deposit.

You might come to see that one of your wisest investments in your property is the modest monthly fee charged by professional property managers. This amount easily pays for itself many times over in the course of a typical lease.