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What is property management?

Property management is the operation of a rental property on an owner's behalf — marketing vacancies, screening and placing tenants, collecting rent, arranging maintenance and handling compliance.

It is a recurring-revenue business rather than a transactional one, usually charged as a percentage of collected rent plus placement fees. That makes it steadier than sales but far more operationally demanding.

The core competences are tenant screening, which determines most downstream problems, and maintenance response, which determines retention. Both are unglamorous and both compound.

For sales agents, management is a natural adjacency — investor clients need it, and managing a property keeps you present for the eventual sale — but it is genuinely a different discipline, not a sideline.

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