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The Landlord’s Checklist for High Tenant Retention and Demand

Provided by Rentredi

If you have good tenants who look after your property well, pay the rent on time, and don’t receive any complaints from the neighbors, you’ve won the jackpot!

Great tenants make your life easy but they can be hard to come by. So, it’s no surprise that you want to retain them long-term.

In this article, we will share our Landlord Checklist for high tenant retention rates and demand. We hope that it helps you secure great tenants who stick around for the long term.

The Benefits of High Retention Tenants

Here we’ll cover some of the benefits of high retention tenants.

Know how to maintain smoke detectors and who is responsible for smoke detector maintenance

Source: Rental Housing Journal

Regarding fire safety, properly operating smoke detectors is one of the most essential tools for alerting property owners and firefighters of dangerous home and apartment fires before they happen.

They are a simple tool that saves lives.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, “Roughly three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.”

This means that the risk of death from a residential or apartment fire is cut in half in homes with operable smoke alarms. In states such as Arizona, where I work, rental property owners must provide smoke detectors to their tenants. However, fire safety requires more than just installing smoke detectors on your property: You must also maintain them. Doing so will keep your property and, more importantly, your tenants better protected against fires.

Here are a few tips from an Arizona fire protection expert on maintaining smoke detectors.