A Warm Welcome to Our Regency Property Managment & Real Estate Clients & 'Hello Again' to all Previous Readers - from Kathy Berner & Paulo Shikanai ... Let's Talk About Real Estate!I would like to take this opportunity to welcome and say a big hello...

Start Your Tenancy Agreement on the Right Foot When a landlord finds themselves at a hearing at the Rental Board and ends up ‘losing’ the case, probably 99% of the time their loss is due to their OWN mistakes - from choosing the wrong tenant,...

To Be A Real Estate Investor or Not to Be: Be Careful What you Wish For  Nineteen years ago my husband and I bought our first little rental home with the savings we had gathered up while working in Japan in the 1990’s.  We were...

Learn to manage the big issues:  Bed Bugs Kathy Berner, owner of Regency Property Management and Real Estate, tells of the two main issues landlords should know before investing When landlords think of property ownership and management issues, they tend to think of the BIG...

Staying on Track – The value of Continued Financial Education, Networking and Goal-setting: You see it all around you these days; people worried about their financial future, complaining about how hard they have to work to make ends meet or why the government isn’t doing...

My husband, Paulo Shikanai and I own and operate Regency Property Management and Real Estate in Regina; a full service and registered property management/real estate company AND we are real estate investors ourselves.  In fact, we are property managers BECAUSE we are real estate investors;...

Top 10 Must-Do’s Rules to avoid costly Landlord losses When I think back over the past eleven years, I could write a book about the many close calls that COULD have cost our property management company dearly had we not been so diligent about these...

Selling a Rental Home – A Whole Different Story from Selling your Own Home In 11 years of being in professional property management, the most disappointing experiences have not come from our tenants nor our staff.  Our most disappointing and frustrating ‘property management’ stories are...

Top 10 Landlord Mistakes that can ‘break’ the investor’s success – as seen from the perspective of a Property Manager. After being in the property management business for over ten years,  I have identified the top ten mistakes that property owners can make which directly...

More Minor but Very Important Tips for Landlords and Property Managers: 1. Watch for the Midnight Move,  frozen water mains  and know your insurance policy: As a landlord or an income property owner, you have probably heard of the ‘midnight move’ or ‘the tenant has...