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• Management Tips , Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg Sioux Falls has adopted a “maximum number of occupants ordinance” for rental property.  The ordinance says that no more than three unrelated people can inhabit a rental property. “Unrelated people” mean’s people who are more distantly related than cousins. For example, according to the ordinance, a four college roommates could not live

• Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg When a person creates a scam online they build off of two main human ingredients. GREED and FEAR The scammer creates an ad containing quality information (often information they took from another ad) and everything looks correct accept for the pricing. Depending on the size and price tag of the property they

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• Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It makes sense for property managers to educate their tenants about avoiding bed bug infestations. While bed bugs can travel from unit to unit in multi-unit housing, aside from that, the biggest assistants at helping bed bugs hitchhike into a tenant’s home

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• Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg Hopefully this never happens, but it is quite possible that a rental becomes infested with bed bugs. If this does happen, an exterminator will need to be hired to take care of the problem. In addition to the exterminator, the tenants are also a crucial participant in ridding the unit of bed

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• Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg Pets are common in rental properties. Both landlords and tenants should be up-to-date on city ordinances controlling pet ownership and management. The following list of pet ordinances for Sioux Falls is not exhaustive, but it does cover the main questions pet owners and landlords are likely to have. RESTRAINING YOUR PET Sioux

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• Tenant Tips ,
• 14 May

By Josh Kattenberg “Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite! If they do, beat them with a shoe, until they’re black and blue!” I have said this little litany to my kids for years, never with actually thinking what I would actually feel if bed bugs actually DID bite them. For those