{"id":95,"date":"2008-02-13T22:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog1\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-02-13T22:55:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:55:44","slug":"landlords-boost-the-income-from-your-rental-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/landlords-boost-the-income-from-your-rental-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlords:  Boost the Income from your rental properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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a landlord is how to get more rent out of your units with investing a lot of time or money into them.&nbsp; If they are outdated or in need of repair, they are going to be harder to rent and you will get less rent for them (that is just a fact of life).&nbsp;&nbsp; So when a customer approached us about buying 10 kitchens at once, I had to find out why.&nbsp; He made a great point about rental units that I had never thought about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said there are 3 things that stick out in an apartment or rental unit:&nbsp; the carpet, the kitchen, and the bathroom(s).&nbsp;&nbsp; If any of them look worn or outdated, you will have a hard time renting a unit.&nbsp; Since kitchens can be expensive, he searched high and low to find a cost effective solution and he came across us.&nbsp; He said that for roughly $3,000 per unit (10 units) he could update the kitchen cabinets &nbsp;and the bathroom, and raise the rent an extra $250 a month!&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not only that, but the fact that they had updated kitchens and bathrooms made the units more marketable to renters.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t want me to mention his name, but he said it was okay to share his secret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So for all the rental property owners and landlords out there, you might want to look at it from this guys point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/landlords-boost-the-income-from-your-rental-properties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Landlords:  Boost the Income from your rental properties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}