We deal with a lot of rental property owners and one of them had a good point that I thought I would share with everyone.   One of the biggest challenges that you face as a landlord is how to get more rent out of your units with investing a lot of time or money into them.  If they are outdated or in need of repair, they are going to be harder to rent and you will get less rent for them (that is just a fact of life).   So when a customer approached us about buying 10 kitchens at once, I had to find out why.  He made a great point about rental units that I had never thought about.

He said there are 3 things that stick out in an apartment or rental unit:  the carpet, the kitchen, and the bathroom(s).   If any of them look worn or outdated, you will have a hard time renting a unit.  Since kitchens can be expensive, he searched high and low to find a cost effective solution and he came across us.  He said that for roughly $3,000 per unit (10 units) he could update the kitchen cabinets  and the bathroom, and raise the rent an extra $250 a month!   That basically means that he has the renovation paid off in a year, and he is now bringing in an extra $250 per unit from here on out.   Not only that, but the fact that they had updated kitchens and bathrooms made the units more marketable to renters.    I never really thought about it that way. Most landlords are looking for ways to avoid spending money, when this guy was out there spending money to make more money.  He didn't want me to mention his name, but he said it was okay to share his secret.

So for all the rental property owners and landlords out there, you might want to look at it from this guys point of view.

Over the past couple of months we have been working hard designing a couple of new kitchen cabinet lines that we are going to be manufacturing, along with a couple of kitchen cabinet lines from other manufacturers that we are going to start handling as well.   By hand picking which cabinets we are going to adding, we can insure that the same quality and features will be available in all of our products.  Keep an eye out for some new door styles as well as some different finishes that are coming.   In addition to new kitchen cabinets, we are also going to be bringing in some new styles for the bathroom vanities.

Look for our Windsor Maple cabinets to be featured in the upcoming HGTV show that we are shooting.   Going to have some surprises in there as well, such as how to install a farmers sink with our cabinets and a built in oven in a base cabinet.

Today is the big day that the reveals for the two different episodes of "Renovation Rescue" are being filmed.  Unfortunately due to the weather in the Northeast, we were not able to make it to Denver to be there for filming.   The production team promised to take a lot of pictures of the Marquis Cinnamon and the Cherryville vanities, and the transformation that occurred.   Check back for pictures from the show.    We just received the layout for the kitchen that is going to be installed on an episode of "Kitchen Renovations"... this one will be filmed in Philadelphia, so it should be exciting.   That show will be taped at the beginning of March, and they have decided to install the Marquis Cinnamon Kitchen Cabinets.