Property Management Blog

Can't I just say no to pets? Please!?

By Storm Williams Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Are you concerned about allowing pets in your property? Well, you aren’t alone. The challenge however is to step back from personal feelings, personal experiences, or horror stories on your Facebook feed, to really hear the truth about the choice of not accepts ...

Property Updates & Return On Investment

By Storm Williams Monday, July 27, 2015

Here is the question, “If I pay for a major update to my investment property, how much more can I demand in rent?” The first thing that comes to mind whenever I’m asked this question, is a favorite book of mine called Outliers by Malcom Gladwell.&nb...

2015 Landlord Symposium (Colorado Springs)

By Storm Williams Saturday, April 25, 2015

March 19th was one of the most anticipated events of the year for us here at Dorman - it was the 2015 NARPM Landlord Symposium. For us licensees it's a full day of continuing education sponsored by a ton of great local vendors for different industry related services. &n...

New Water Heater Requirements

By Storm Williams Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Effective April 16th of this year, the requirements for manufacturers concerning the efficiency of the hot water heaters made and sold will be shifting positively towards greater energy savings, but negatively towards our pocket-books. There are also more strict building co...

Tenant Screening Pitfalls

By Storm Williams Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Good or bad tenants will make or break your real estate investment and the return you see from it. This is why most professional property managers (like us) have such hard and fast rules about who we will or will not approve. When prospective tenants are declined by o...

Owner/Client New Weekly Vacancy Update!

By Storm Williams Wednesday, March 11, 2015

For all of our valued owner clients we'd like to annouce our new weekly vacancy update. If you have a listed vacancy, on Monday of every week you will now recieve an e-mail update showing the number of inquiries on your property, the number of showings, and thoughts/rec...

Tenant Default Stats - Risk Vs. Reward

By Storm Williams Monday, February 23, 2015

Rental history, credit, and income are extremely important to look at when considering which prospective tenants you are going to approve or deny, but for landlords, what does the data actually mean in terms of 'chance to default'? Did you know that in the U.S. only one o...

Property Management Software Update - FYI

By Storm Williams Wednesday, February 18, 2015

What was Dorman Real Estate Management up to today you ask!? We were attending a software review and update, hosted by our amazing software provider Appfolio! We do this so that we can stay on the cutting edge of what is possible with our top tier management software, and i...

Keep Ft. Carson Strong!

By Storm Williams Friday, February 13, 2015

We attended the Apartment Association luncheon yesterday and got to receive a Ft. Carson briefing from Col. Joel D. Hamilton the Fort Carson Garrison Commander. The first thing that jumped out at us is that there are currently 3,500 soldiers deploying – which is furth...

BBB A+ RATING!

By Storm Williams Monday, February 9, 2015

We are now rated as an A+ company with the BBB! It’s so exciting to see our hard work being recognized! As you can imagine, getting strong reviews with the BBB and other rating sites such as Google can be difficult in this industry. The nature of our business is...