Tips for Landlords   
Tips for Landlords   

Congratulations to our RentWhiz sweepstakes winners. If you haven’t checked out whether or not you won, please click here.  In this week’s blog, we decided to give landlords some advice. We get to speak to landlords and tenants on a regular basis, so we are in a unique position where we get to see things from both perspectives, and we would like to share our thoughts with you.

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Advice to my first-year self
Advice to my first-year self

In this week’s blog, we reached out to some of our community members and asked them to give us one piece of advice they would give to their first-year self and here are some of the responses we got.

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Common Financial Mistakes Student’s Make
Common Financial Mistakes Student’s Make

We are getting close to the end of our sweepstakes contest where you can win up to $150 (competition closes Monday September 16, 2019). But giving away this money made us think about the top financial mistakes student’s make. Let’s face it, we aren’t all financial guru’s like Warren Buffett, but we can still avoid making some financial mistakes that could cost us a lot of money.

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Life Hacks for Students Living Off-Campus
Life Hacks for Students Living Off-Campus

We realise that living off campus has some advantages and some disadvantages. This week we would like to share some quick life hacks that could help offset some of those disadvantages. It’s still not too late to enter our sweepstakes contest where you can win up to $150. The competition closes in 7 days, so enter today!!

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Move-In Inspections   
Move-In Inspections   

A lot of you will be moving into your new place in the next few days and some of you may have already moved in. We can’t stress the importance of doing a move in inspection because any damages that are identified when you move out, may prevent you from getting your damage deposit back or could lead to a bad referral. If you can hire someone to do a professional inspection, then we think you should. However, if this is not an option for you, we’ve compiled a short list of the top ten items we think you should inspect.

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