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Blog Post San Jose Rental Property Maintenance versus Urgent Repairs - Which is More Expensive for Real Estate Investors?
By Cornerstone Property Management - Friday, January 10, 2020

San Jose Rental Property Maintenance versus Urgent Repairs - Which is More Expensive for Real Estate...

Even if your San Jose rental property is brand new and in excellent condition, it’s going to require maintenance at some point. Appliances will break, systems will age, and unexpected accidents will happen. While many investors shudder at the thought of spending money on ma...
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By Cornerstone Property Management - Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Most Important Questions to Ask a San Jose Property Manager | Rental Owner Advice

Today, we’re sharing some of the questions you should ask a property manager before you hire them to take care of your rental properties. Relationships and Communication The first question I would ask is about your level of involvement. If you are the type of client who...
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By Cornerstone Property Management - Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Screening to Find the Best Tenant | San Jose Rental Owner Advice

When you’re trying to attract the best tenants for your property, the home has to be in excellent condition. We always tell our clients that the quality of the property will mirror the quality of the tenants we attract.     Preparing and Showing Your Property ...
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Blog Post Changes to City of San Jose Garbage Billing
By Cornerstone Property Management - Monday, May 11, 2015

Changes to City of San Jose Garbage Billing

Beginning July 1, 2015 the City of San Jose will no longer send a bi-monthly garbage bill. The fees for garbage collection will instead be added to property owner's bi-annual property tax bill. Most SJ garbage customers utilizing a standard 32 gallon trash container will be b...
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Blog Post Santa Clara County Water Restrictions
By Cornerstone Property Management - Thursday, May 7, 2015

Santa Clara County Water Restrictions

With the California drought reaching an emergency status, we must all do our part to conserve water. Due to recent regulations requiring a 30% reduction in water use, all tenants are requested to reduce their landscape watering to be in line with water district restrictions. Th...
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Blog Post Serving a Notice To Vacate a Rental Home
By Cornerstone Property Management - Thursday, October 31, 2013

Serving a Notice To Vacate a Rental Home

Laws vary from state to state, but in California, Landlords must give 30 days' notice to vacate if the tenancy is for 1 year or less, or 60 days for a tenancy exceeding 1 year. Notice must be served properly, in one of the following 3 ways: By delivering a copy of the noti...
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Blog Post Handling an Unauthorized Pet
By Cornerstone Property Management - Monday, December 17, 2012

Handling an Unauthorized Pet

It happens. It is frustrating, irritating, and even maddening. You place a tenant in the property and the rental agreement documents "no pets/animals." You counsel the tenants that this is a binding agreement. Then a vendor goes out to a property to repair something and reports b...
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Blog Post Refinancing Your Income Property
By Cornerstone Property Management - Thursday, November 8, 2012

Refinancing Your Income Property

With historically low interest rates we have seen a large influx in clients refinancing their mortgages. If it's been a while since you've refinanced, or maybe even if you have recently, you can probably benefit from refinancing your existing mortgage. Speak to your loan office...
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Blog Post Internet - Email Outage
By Cornerstone Property Management - Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Internet - Email Outage

Dear Clients and Tenants: Due to superstorm Sandy affecting servers on the east coast, we are experiencing some service issues on email servers and our website. We will respond to any emails that we receive but please understand that delivery of some emails may fail or reach us...
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Blog Post New Rental Housing Laws for 2013
By Cornerstone Property Management - Monday, October 22, 2012

New Rental Housing Laws for 2013

California Apartment Association has released information regarding new bills signed in by Governor Jerry Brown. Below are summations of the bills and CAA's position on each bill. Please feel free to leave a comment and tell us what you think! Rental Housing Bills to Become La...
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