Holiday Safety Tips for Renters

By Gulf Coast Property Management Tuesday, November 28, 2017

For many, the holiday season is filled with festive activities including cooking, decorating, and travel plans. The buzz and excitement can make it easy to forget that the holidays bring on a unique set of safety concerns. Taking the following precautions will keep you and your ...

Government Assistance- Do We Accept?

By Gulf Coast Property Management Monday, October 30, 2017

A common question we get at Gulf Coast Property Management is do we accept Government Assistance? Acceptance or non-acceptance of housing assistance is a choice that we leave up to each individual homeowner. Because we manage many properties, it means some of our homes accept go...

Why Some Tenants Don’t Renew Their Lease

By Gulf Coast Property Management Monday, October 30, 2017

As landlords know, keeping quality tenants in your property is ideal and good for cash flow. Less turnover is ideal. Quality tenants usually take good care of your property, are not difficult to work with and most importantly, pay their rent on time. When renewal time rolls aroun...

What does a property management fee cover?

By Gulf Coast Property Management Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Do you currently own a rental property? If so, you know that taking care of a rental investment can be done in one of two ways. Either you do it yourself or you hire a property management company to do it for you for a fee. Today we’ll go over what our management fee consists o...

Top Hurricane Preparation Tips

By Gulf Coast Property Management Tuesday, September 5, 2017

During Hurricane Season, we urge tenants and homeowners to be prepared if leaving your rental home/ home is not an option. We wanted to share a few great tips and things to remember in case the Bradenton-Sarasota area suffers damage from a Hurricane or for any future storm.Top Hu...

New Landlord Common Mistakes

By Gulf Coast Property Management Tuesday, August 29, 2017

How To Avoid Common Landlord Mistakes Being a landlord brings on a whole new set of responsibilities and by not handling situations the right way could end you up in quite a bit of trouble. Without experience or the knowledge to manage a rental home you could quickly lose money ...

Earn Credit for Paying Rent On Time!

By Gulf Coast Property Management Monday, August 21, 2017

Here at Gulf Coast, we believe it is important to give credit to all of our tenants that pay rent on time. That's why we have teamed up with Experian Rent Bureau. Experian includes your positive rental payment data to Experian credit reports. Check out how it works and sample re...

Submitting Online Maintenance Requests

By Gulf Coast Property Management Thursday, August 10, 2017

Recent changes have been made to the way we handle our maintenance requests. Moving forward maintenance requests can be input through our tenant portal system. This recent change has prompted us to look at how we handle incoming calls and online requests and we are pleased to an...

Common Tenant Responsibilities

By Gulf Coast Property Management Tuesday, August 1, 2017

While it may be a no brainer to some renters having rented for a few years, many prospective tenants aren’t sure what tenant responsibilities entail. With a lease in place tenants have many duties to fill while living in the rental. Of course, landlords/property managers are r...

Top Notch Screening Process for Tenants

By Gulf Coast Property Management Thursday, July 20, 2017

We’ve all heard those horrifying landlord stories. The ones that make you think twice about becoming a landlord. Stories that involve tenants destroying personal property, tenants running a drug house, or those tenants that make life plain miserable. While it does happen, i...