Property Management - Investment Strategies

• Investor's guide to landlord insurance

  Think your landlord insurance covers you for all eventualities? Think again. Your Investment Property delves into the fine print, explores how to cover your back and how to make a successful claim read more

• How to charge more rent and still keep your tenant

  As news reports hit home of a tight rental market in most capital cities, landlords could be forgiven for thinking it was about time they increased their rents. But how can they do it without scaring off good tenants? Your Investment Property goes in search of answers read more

• The true cost of upping the rent

  In some situations, if a rental increase will result in a long vacancy period it might work in your favour to keep the rent as it is. Don’t believe us? We show you an illustration of how it could happen read more

• Make your portfolio bulletproof

  From getting retrenched to landing a tenant with an appetite for destruction, fate deals property portfolios some nasty surprises. The question is: could there be a way for investors to plan for them? Read on to find out how. read more

• ‘How a nightmare tenant left me broke’

  Queenslander Tonya McGinley explains how a tenant of hers punched and defecated his way to ruining her finances read more

• Dealing with regional property managers

  Property managers run a different operation in regional centres and many investors living in capital cities have only learnt this the hard way read more

• Furnishing an investment property

  A tight rental market is keeping landlords happy, but even the good times can get better with some good strategy. Should yours involve a trip to Ikea? read more

• Queensland’s rental winners

  As vacancy rates tighten in many of Queensland's key property markets, tenants are becoming increasingly desperate to secure a rental property. Read on to discover which Queensland markets are playing into the hands of landlords. read more

• Cities where it’s good to be a landlord

  The latest vacancy rate figures suggest that some of our cities are facing extreme shortages of rental properties. In other cities, however, it looks as if renters may be starting to get an upper hand. read more