Page Readers talks with Gordon Basichis, author of “The Guys Who Spied for China”
Gordon Basichis, Co-Founder of Corra Group, just wrote a new book called “The Guys Who Spied for China”, about the interesting world of international espionage.
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About the Author:
Basichis is also co-founder of Corra, which as the Corra Group specializes
in pre-employment and corporate research and investigation. In addition to his [...]
Tenant Screening helps prevent neighborhood blight in recession
According to a recent article on Fox, property owners in Memphis, Tennessee are watching their neighborhoods turn to blight as the properties around them fall into disrepair, become abandoned with overgrown lawns and attract squatters and criminal activity. Some property owners say that the property maintenance is the responsibility of the tenants. Dr. Phyllis Betts, the director of [...]
Bad Landlords Making the news
A recent article in HeraldNet discusses a rise in bad landlords in Everett. Due to the recession, landlords have had their work cut out for them. Cash strapped tenants are paying rent late or not at all, damaging property and skipping town. Landlords are finding it hard to maintain property safety and grounds keeping, clean water and [...]
Tenant Screening Problems and Suggestions
Some readers have asked some important questions regarding the effectiveness of background checks in the tenant screening process. One major issue to trying to figure out an accurate, current portrait of your tenant’s fiduciary and social responsibility. What happens if you run a credit report that shows low risk, good credit? They might have great [...]
The Importance of Screening Residential Tenants
The examiner.com posted a recent article about the importance of background screening residential tenants. The article talks about the importance of running tenant credit reports, conducting reference verifications, and screening for criminal history. The author C arlos Cooper applies some common sense advice about evaluating the results of the background check report. For example, credit [...]
Sioux Falls offers course in Tenant Screening
More communities and beginning to educate homeowners on property management. According to the examiner.com, Sioux Falls Community education is offering several courses for home owners on various home improvement subjects.
The courses begin in September and cover various aspects of home owning including first time home buying, windows, woodworking, radiant heat panels, and property management including [...]
Management Company sues tenant for Twitter Post
According to CBS, a resident in Chicago has been sued by her management agency for posting a Tweet on Twitter accusing her management company of being OK with moldy apartments. The suit alleges that the twitter post is a defamatory statement.
Search of the subject’s name on Twitter shows the dialogue is just starting about this [...]
More communities discuss tenant screening
Communities across the United States are starting to discuss the benefits of tenant screening, including how to conduct a tenant screening and how to follow the applicable state, local and federal laws. Recently, Brainerd MN held a town hall meeting about tenant screening and this week they are getting to together to discuss it. The [...]
The Importance of Tenant Screening
More communities are providing forums to help landlords and property owners understand their rights and help them engage effectively with their tenants. Champlin Minnesota is the newest community to encourage this behavior, which a forum that occurred on May 14th, the second annual landlord forum.
In addition to discussing low interest loans for property repair, using [...]
Take care of your tenants before it makes the news
WLKY.com reports a full story about tenants finding rats in their apartment, complete with photographs of rats and rats droppings. The tenants claim the problem started in January and they have been trying to resolve it with their landlords, but the problem is still ongoing. They claim the property manager didn’t take them seriously and [...]
