Property Management Blog

Why communicate in writing?

Video Transcript:Hi, Todd Ortscheid here with GTL Real Estate. In this video I just wanted to talk briefly about how you can reach us. A frequent question we get from tenants is why we prefer to have communications in writing. If you call our phone system you’ll find that ...

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Why do we charge a fee for paper payments?

We recently started charging a $10 fee for paper payments (check, money order, cashier’s check). Why did we do this?Well, several reasons:Paper payments take a lot of time for our staff members to deal with. Electronic payments are all completely automatic, but paper paymen...

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Repair Issues with Your Atlanta Area Rental Property

Video Transcript:Hi, Todd Ortscheid here with GTL Real Estate, wanting to spend just a bit of time this week on a frequent topic we talk about, which is repairs on your rental properties. It’s a big topic all the time just because it comes up so much in what we do on a day ...

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Selecting Vendors for your Metro Atlanta Rental Property

Video Transcript:Hi. Todd Ortscheid here with GTL Real Estate. This week, I wanted to talk about selecting repair vendors for your property. One thing we do not do that a lot of property management companies require of their clients is that we do not require you to use our vendo...

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Payments to Owner Clients

Video Transcript:Hi, Todd Ortscheid here with GTL Real Estate. This week I wanted to talk to you about how we process your rent payments into your bank account, which is how we usually do it. Or by check for a few of you. But for most you we do direct deposit. If you’re not...

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Making an Owner Contribution to your Account

In this week’s video, rather than talking about a frequent question about rental property in general, we wanted to go over a frequent problem our clients have with their Owner Portals: how to make a contribution of funds in order to pay a bill. Owners don’t have to do...

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The Importance of Quick Repairs on Your Atlanta Rental Property

Hi, Todd Ortscheid here with GTL Real Estate. I wanted to talk a little bit about the importance of speedy maintenance. This is the second time in the last few weeks we’ve talked about maintenance and repairs. The reason for that is just because it’s such an important...

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Using Online Reviews to Pick a Property Management Company

Hi, Todd Ortscheid here with Revolution Rental Management talking this week about online reviews and how you can best use those to help find a property management company to manage your rental property.Online reviews, obviously, have gotten pretty popular. Google and Yelp are pro...

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Maintenance and Repairs Commission

Todd Ortscheid of  Revolution Rental Management, formerly known as GTL Real Estate, talks about why an additional commission is charged on maintenance and repairs over and above the standard monthly management fee.We manage a broad range of properties, and maintenance a...

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Landlord Inspections

Todd Ortscheid of Revolution Rental Management, formerly known as GTL Real Estate, talks about landlord inspections that are done with tenants already in place and in the middle of their lease.While you may be the owner of the property and thus, feel like you should be able ...

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