Boise Property Management Blog

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, February 23, 2021

NARPM Designations - What are they?

What exactly are NARPM Designations? Some states require property managers to have their real estate license, some don't. Regardless, most property managers choose to go beyond that license and get certifications specializing in the property management field. It's imperative to ...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, February 16, 2021

5 Inexpensive Upgrade Options for your Rental Property

Upgrading your rental property is something that most landlords should do over time and as needed. There are a lot of inexpensive upgrade options for your rental property as well. These upgrades can not only improve your property value, but these upgrades can easily attract new...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Top Reasons Why Real Estate Agents Should Partner with Property Managers

Why should real estate agents partner with property managers? We get questions like: " Why wouldn't an agent just want to do the property management themselves, and it just becomes another stream of revenue for them?" There isn't a short answer to that. Agents can do...

By RentWise Property Management - Thursday, February 4, 2021

NARPM Q3 2020 Vacancy Survey

The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) Q3 reports show the vacancy and rental rate trends amongst single-family homes and multi-family units in the Ada and Canyon County area. The NARPM collected data indicates vacancy rates increased .33% from 4.3% ...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Paying Rent Online

Paying rent online has become the norm across the board these days however; the convenience of doing so comes at a cost for most tenants. While we here at Rentwise can't control what the credit card companies and banks charge we do our best to mitigate any expenses we can. We do ...

By RentWise Property Management - Friday, September 11, 2020

Self Showing Lockboxes

Self-showing lock boxes became very popular after several agents where attacked and even killed in our industry as well as the real estate industry. Unfortunately this has become something that happens more often than people probably know (or want to know) so we initially started...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Building credit as a renter

Do you wonder how you can build your credit as a renter? Have you ever heard the saying; you must have credit to build credit? In order to get a loan, you need credit history; however, the only way to build credit history is to take on debt with credit cards and/or loans. What if...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, August 25, 2020

NARPM Q2 2020 Vacancy Survey

This quarters NARPM survey was published a little later than expected but the numbers are in and they are interesting. This year has been curious to say the least and housing is just one area that has been affected by this years pandemic. 19 property managers participated in thi...

By RentWise Property Management - Saturday, August 8, 2020

Tenant Benefit Bundle Package

RentWise Property Management has rolled out a new benefit bundle package that was designed to provide protection and convenience to all our tenants. This program is meant to ultimately save our tenants time and money. We have partnered with three companies to provide you with som...

By RentWise Property Management - Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Q1 2020 Vacancy Survey

Curious about what our local market is doing when it comes to rentals? Rentwise is a member of the Southwest Chapter of NARPM, the National Association of Residential Property Managers, which conducts a vacancy survey quarterly to deliver important data on the trends we are seein...