Long Term Rentals
How to Screen Rental Residents the Right Way in Riverside, California (2025 Guide)
How to Screen Rental Residents the Right Way in Riverside, California (2025 Guide) By Brian Bean | Dream Big Property Management If you own a rental property in Southern California, resident screening is the single most important step you can take to protect your investment. It directly impacts your income, your property’s condition, and your…
Read MoreThe Hidden Benefits of Having a Great Resident in Your Riverside, CA, Rental Home
The Hidden Benefits of Having a Great Resident | Riverside & Inland Empire Property Management Tips When it comes to managing a rental property in Riverside or anywhere in the Inland Empire, most people focus on the obvious factors: location, rental rates, and property upgrades. But there’s a hidden driver of success that often…
Read MoreWhy Rental Home Investment in Riverside CA Beats Wall Street Mayhem
Why Rental Home Investment in Riverside CA Beats Wall Street Mayhem By Brian Bean | Dream Big Property Management | Inland Empire Property Manager It’s been a wild couple of weeks on Wall Street. Stock prices plummeted, then recovered, rinse and repeat. Retirement accounts took a hit. And a lot of people were left feeling…
Read MoreRiverside CA Landlords and the New Law Requiring You to Report to Credit Bureaus
Some Riverside, Moreno Valley, Corona, Inland Empire Rental Property Owners now must report on-time rent payments to credit bureaus. Starting this month, a new California law gives rental home residents the power to choose whether or not they want their on-time rent payments reported to credit bureaus. Similar to the what homeowners get when…
Read MoreWhy We’re Eliminating Application Fees for Rental Homes in Riverside, CA
Why We’re Eliminating Application Fees for Rental Homes in Riverside, CA Dream Big Property Management serves rental property owners and residents throughout the Inland Empire — including Moreno Valley, Corona, and the surrounding areas — where demand for rental housing eclipses the available inventory. And along with rents and security deposits, we’ve also seen a…
Read MoreThe 5 Profit Centers of Rental Homes
When talking about rental homes, most people focus on the two most common financial measures: Cash flow and appreciation. But did you know there are actually FIVE profit centers in residential rental properties? And they all can help investors build generational wealth for themselves and their families: APPRECIATION: In California, we are all aware…
Read MoreRiverside, CA, Sees Biggest Move Toward Rent Affordability, Study Shows
Rents for homes in Riverside, Calif., made the greatest strides toward affordability, according to figures from the Realtor.com July Rental Report. Renters in the Inland Empire city with a typical household income spent 33.9 percent of their monthly paycheck on the typical rental property in July 2023, the report showed. That number exceeds the prescribed 30…
Read MoreRental Rip-offs Spike; Real estate fraud losses near $400M, FBI reports
Rental home scammers took more than $396 million from unsuspecting victims in 2022, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Last year, more than 11,700 people were taken for the losses in real estate scams compared with $213 million in 2020, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. The number of victims decreased 14…
Read More7 Tips for Landlords to Reduce Property Insurance Premiums
Insurance prices, like everything these days, are going through the roof. And that is contributing to the weight bearing down on rental home investors trying to stay profitable in a high-inflation economy. But here are a few steps you can take to reduce your costs and keep your margins as high as possible: Bundle Your…
Read MoreInvestors Favor Buy-and-Hold Rentals over Fix-and-Flip
More than half of real estate investors plan to buy more properties and keep them as rental homes, according to a recent survey of investor attitudes. The Spring 2023 Investor Sentiment Survey by RCN Capital revealed that 53 percent of investors were targeting rental homes vs. buying to renovate and resell. “The National Association of…
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