Rent a living

While not impossible, it's much easier to negotiate a lower rent after you've lived in a rental for a while.

Deciding to rent an apartment or house might be a better alternative when you're still saving to buy a house. But how much rent you pay will play a major factor in how much money you can continue saving along with your current income. While your credit history will always be evaluated in determining if you can rent at all, can you negotiate your rent before you move in?

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Property management

Property management is the operation, control, and oversight of real estate as used in its most broad terms. Management indicates a need to be cared for, monitored and accountability given for its useful life and condition. This is much akin to the role of management in any business. Property management is also the management of personal property, equipment, tooling and physical capital assets that are acquired and used to build, repair and maintain end item deliverables. Property management involves the processes, systems and manpower required to manage the life cycle of all acquired property as defined above including acquisition, control, accountability, responsibility, maintenance, utilization and disposition.