IMS Realty, LLC & Property Management

  Questions to Consider Before You hire a Property Management Service A property management service should be everything you can hope for. This guide includes some thought-provoking questions that help you to successfully build a relationship with your property management and your tenants, and above all result in a successful real estate investment.  This guide includes questions and advice about hiring operations, establishing policies and procedures, building a communication strategy, outlining expectations, and introducing your new property manager. Questions to ask potential property management : What service does this property management company offer to you? For example, can they inspect, administer background checks, market, lease, manage and sell your properties? How many rentals do they manage? You want to understand their size, and their potential ability to meet your needs. What managing rental experience dose this potential manager have? Can this ...

Las Vegas Property Management vs. Asset Management   There’s no question that the Las Vegas Property management and real estate market has been rapidly evolving ever since the development of true towns and cities began to increase in America, replacing much of the spaced-out farmland and homesteads of the prairie. Today’s prototypical real estate agent had better be flexible and adaptable to those changes – it’s likely that over your lifetime, the market will continue to advance and change even more. Some of the changes that real estate agents have had to adapt to in recent years includes, primarily, learning to be fluent with the different technologies that have become available that can help both buyers and sellers organize their thoughts, research current market trends, and even work with their banks online. However, another line is becoming blurred in the real estate market, and that is the border between Las Vegas property management and asset management. If you’re unc...

10 Things Your Las Vegas Real Estate Agent Wants You to Know   This one goes out to all the everyday Jane and John Does who aren’t professional real estate agents themselves but have come upon the need to hire one. When you’re ready to start looking for a new home, you should do some light reading to get yourself familiar with the local real estate market. In any case, here are the top 10 things that a real estate agent wants you to know but might be too polite to tell you, especially if you aren’t open with them about your questions and concerns. (Please note that these generally pertain to people interested in selling their house and buying a new one, but that the principles behind them certainly are relevant in larger-scale commercial properties too!)   They actually want you to bother them! Don’t be shy, it will be easier in the long run if you’re up front about what you think every step along the way. For instance, the worst phone call or email a real estate age...