Your Landlord Resource Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail Winterize your rental property before the first freeze, because you don't need a blizzard to end up with a burst pipe. One cold night and one forgotten hose can do it. Kevin and I are racing to close up our family's Tahoe cabins right now, so this one is fresh on our minds. Kevin kicks things off with freeze prep, including a neighbor's hose that turned into an ice...

Send us Fan Mail Connect with Us:  🌎 Visit our website   📧 Subscribe to our newsletter. 👆 FREE Landlord Forms and Doc’s 🤳Text Us: 650-489-4447 📩Email us at: Stacie@YourLandlordResource.com , Kevin@YourLandlordResource.com   ➡️ Give us a review: Apple or on Spotify or YouTube   ✔️ Course Waitlist 📱 Instagram , Facebook , &  P rivate Facebook group  

Send us Fan Mail Connect with Us:  🌎 Visit our website   📧 Subscribe to our newsletter. 👆 FREE Landlord Forms and Doc’s 🤳Text Us: 650-489-4447 📩Email us at: Stacie@YourLandlordResource.com , Kevin@YourLandlordResource.com   ➡️ Give us a review: Apple or on Spotify or YouTube   ✔️ Course Waitlist 📱 Instagram , Facebook , &  P rivate Facebook group  

Send us Fan Mail Garbage disposals in rentals are the only appliance I can think of that costs a hundred dollars and can quietly turn into a several thousand dollar problem. And nobody requires you to provide one at all. Kevin opens with the distinction that decides how fast you have to answer that late night text. A disposal is an amenity, not a habitability item. Except there is one specific mom...

Send us Fan Mail The best time to renovate a rental is almost never the moment you finally get sick of looking at the kitchen. Timing is the variable nobody talks about, and it quietly decides whether your money ever comes back. Kevin opens with a framing that clears up half the confusion on this topic. There are only two kinds of rental renovation, and landlords get into trouble when they apply t...

Send us Fan Mail Rental appliance repairs are one of those things you never decide until you are forced to. The refrigerator quits on a Friday night. The dishwasher waters the floor instead of the dishes. The washer starts walking across the laundry room like it owes somebody money. And so you ask yourself, how do I handle this? That was me with our first rental. When that fridge died I had no ide...

Send us Fan Mail This shorty is a checklist episode where we walk through the nine things (plus a bonus tenth) we do every single time between placing a vacancy ad and getting a prospective tenant through the door for a showing. It's also a preview of what's coming in our upcoming course, From Marketing to Move In. In This Episode: •  Writing an ad detailed enough that prospects can pre-...

Send us Fan Mail Every landlord has to make the decision to DIY a task or hire it out. Something breaks, you have got your phone in one hand, ready to call the tech, and a YouTube tutorial in the other to see if you can manage the task yourself…and you are doing the math. The idea for this episode came from a listener who asked what he should be doing himself and what he should be paying someone e...

Send us Fan Mail If you want to collect rent on time, stop thinking of it as something you chase. Almost every late payment we have dealt with in twenty-plus years was not a character problem. It was a design problem. And design problems you can actually fix. We had a tenant who paid on the first of every single month, without fail. Her money did not reach our account until the fifth or sixth. She...

Send us Fan Mail It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night, your phone lights up, and the toilet in your rental is leaking. Do you get in the car, or do you go to sleep and call your plumber in the morning? Emergency maintenance requests are the one call almost every landlord gets wrong at least once, in both directions. Kevin and I are walking you through the three-tier system we use to sort what gets fixed t...

Send us Fan Mail So, the lease is signed, the confetti’s basically falling, and then… what? If you’ve ever found yourself scrambling three days before move-in trying to remember whether you actually collected the security deposit, this episode is for you. Kevin and I are walking you through exactly what to do after a tenant signs their lease, starting with the money you need in hand before you eve...

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever stared at a lease wondering whether you need a lease addendum vs new lease entirely, this episode is for you. Kevin and I get asked this question often, and honestly, guessing wrong can leave your paperwork not holding up when you need it most. I'm walking you through the exact test we use to decide whether a quick addendum will do, or whether it's ti...

Send us Fan Mail Turnovers are one of those parts of being a landlord that either quietly build your profit, or quietly drain it. After doing more of them than I can count, Kevin and I finally sat down and walked through exactly how we handle every single one, from the moment a tenant gives notice to the day we hand a new tenant their keys. I'm covering the non-negotiable safety and maintenan...

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords think about taxes in February. By then, the year is already over — and so are most of the opportunities to do anything about it. In this Shorty episode, we break down why summer is actually the smartest time to get your rental finances in order. You still have months left in the tax year, which means if you find a problem now, you still have time to fix it. We cover...

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords know exactly how to screen a W-2 employee. Two pay stubs, an employer call, run the three-times-rent math — done. But what happens when the applicant in front of you is a freelance designer, a self-employed contractor, or a college student whose only income is a financial aid check? In this episode, we walk through exactly how to handle renting to students and freel...

Send us Fan Mail You probably know that if your roof leaks, that's on you. But do you actually know who pays when a tenant ignores a slow drip for six months until the subfloor rots? Landlord tenant maintenance responsibilities sound simple on paper, but the real world is full of gray areas that catch self-managing landlords off guard — usually right when it's most expensive to learn the...

Send us Fan Mail You probably have a lease. But does it have a rental property guest policy?  You know, one that actually defines how long a guest can stay, who's responsible for their behavior, and what happens if they never leave? Most self-managing landlords don't, and it's one of those gaps that feels harmless until a "temporary" houseguest is still there six months la...

Send us Fan Mail If you've never had a smoking tenant, consider yourself lucky — and unprepared. A smoking policy for landlords isn't just a nice-to-have anymore. It's the industry standard. But if your lease only says "no cigarettes," you may have more gaps than you realize. Vaping, e-cigarettes, cigars, and cannabis all need to be spelled out — and most older leases don&...

Send us Fan Mail What if you had a business advisor on call at two in the morning when your tenant sends a threatening email, your insurance company denies a claim, or you need to know your rights before calling your attorney the next day? That advisor exists — and it's AI. In this episode of the Your Landlord Resource Podcast, Kevin and I get real about how we use artificial intelligence in...

Send us Fan Mail You know the neighborhood when you buy. But do you really know it now that you own and manage the property? In this Shorty episode of the Your Landlord Resource Podcast, Kevin and Stacie take a topic they first introduced in Episode 23 and go deeper — moving beyond marketing copy to explore what it truly means to understand the neighborhood surrounding your rental property. From d...

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords spend years building a rental portfolio — and almost no time planning what happens to it when they're gone. Whether you have no estate plan in place or think you have everything handled, this episode may reveal a gap you didn't know existed. In this episode of the Your Landlord Resource Podcast, Kevin and Stacie walk through the most common estate planning...

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords don't think twice when a teenager has been living in their rental for years. But the moment that kid turns 18, something quietly shifts — and if you're not paying attention, it can cost you. In this Shorty episode of the Your Landlord Resource Podcast, Kevin and I dig into one of those landlord blind spots that doesn't announce itself until something...

Send us Fan Mail Most landlords know they need photos to market a vacant rental. But if that's the only time your camera comes out, you're leaving serious money — and legal protection — on the table. In this episode of the Your Landlord Resource Podcast, Kevin and I dig into why rental property photos are one of the most underutilized tools in a self-managing landlord's toolkit. Fro...

Send us Fan Mail Running rental properties efficiently often comes down to having the right systems in place. In this episode, Kevin and I walk through a very effective landlord system we’ve created for our rentals — our unit binder . A unit binder for landlords is a simple system we place inside every rental unit that answers common tenant questions, explains how appliances work, and provides hel...