As part of our ongoing efforts to build a trusted rental community, we have verification processes in place to verify every landlord and property manager profile and listing. Renters must also verify their profile once they start applying to listings. This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how renters and landlords can verify their profiles and listings. Jump to each section below: How To Verify Your Renter ProfileHow To Verify Your ...
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As a landlord or tenant, conducting viewings during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a challenge. In many jurisdictions, viewings have been canceled completely. Thankfully, our latest digital feature can help landlords adjust to a rental market that is rapidly shifting online. Our new video tour feature reduces the need for in-person viewings and enhances your property listings. Unlike static images, videos will give prospective tenants a better spatial understanding of ...
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Spotlight Series Our Spotlight Series highlights the experiences of Metro Vancouver property managers and tenants. Each post explores their property management approach and challenges and, more specifically, how they are using and benefitting from the liv.rent platform. This profile is different from others in the series as it is the first one we are running during the current pandemic. Like all businesses, GEC has had to adjust to the new environment. Thankfully, ...
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Spotlight Series Our Spotlight Series highlights the experiences of Metro Vancouver property managers and tenants. Each post explores their property management approach and challenges and, more specifically, how they are using and benefitting from the liv.rent platform. Eagleson Properties Eagleson Properties Ltd. is a vibrant, boutique property management brokerage providing quality service to investment owners in the Lower Mainland (Greater Vancouver). With over 10 years of property management experience, they take the service ...
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When renting out your property, it is absolutely crucial that you carefully think through a set of rules for your tenants. Many of these should be reflected in the Lease Agreement providing as much detail as possible to avoid any ambiguity. Ultimately, this will help you avoid conflicts with your tenants and, hopefully, preserve the condition of your rental property. Top 12 Considerations when setting Rental Property Rules We’ve outlined the ...
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What is old is new again – this holds particularly true for New Westminster’s Brewery District neighbourhood. More than 150 years ago, a group of British military engineers called Sappers set up camp where the majestic Fraser River splits north and south to survey land that would briefly become the capital of British Columbia. Though New Westminster lost the provincial government to Victoria by 1862, the area had quickly become home to ...
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Why Liv Rent? Liv Rent was designed to make life easier for landlords. It is an intuitive and rich tool with exciting features including easy listing of your apartment(s), access to verified leads (renters who have provided valid government-issued i.d., contact information), free tenant screening (tenant credit check), simple appointment bookings, digital rent payments, easy listing management and more. Why landlords & property managers love using Liv Rent Read some of our client ...
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4 Ways to Pay Rent Gone are the days when your hand would cramp writing a year's worth of rent cheques to present to your landlord. At last, we have a variety of rent payment options available to tenants. Every tenancy agreement should specify the acceptable forms of rent payment. The e-transfer option has grown in popularity thanks to the ease of use and lack of paper required. Currently, there are 4 ...
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As a landlord or tenant, conversations are initiated with one another in the liv.rent app. A record or timeline of all interactions will be maintained so that users can reference all exchanges. Our new email feature sends a notification to your email and creates a synchronous log of the conversation in email as well as in-app for your records. So what is new with Liv Rent? Once you've enabled this feature, you ...
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User Spotlight Series Our Spotlight Series highlights the experiences of Metro Vancouver property managers and tenants. Each post explores their property management approach and challenges and, more specifically, how they are using and benefitting from the liv.rent platform. Soul Homes Soul Homes is a Vancouver-based full service property management company active in the Lower Mainland. Soul Homes founders, the Toosi brothers, learned the value of good tenants and property management the hard way, by ...
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