The timing, plainly
How often should you inspect a rental property?
On a cadence you set at lease signing — not when a problem forces it. The common shape: a documented move-in condition report, one or two mid-tenancy checks with proper notice, and a move-out inspection against the move-in report. The exact notice you owe the tenant is set by your state or city, so check your local rules before you schedule. The failure mode is familiar to every landlord: with good tenants, nobody enters the unit for years — and the slow leak, the disabled smoke alarm, and the unreported damage all compound quietly until turnover day.
Inspections that aren’t scheduled don’t happen — a quiet tenancy removes every natural prompt to look, and small problems price like big ones by move-out.
Where it sits in the year
Ordered from this month — this is the shape of it on a timeline.
How much notice do I owe the tenant before an inspection?
Your state or city sets the minimum — and some jurisdictions also limit how often you can enter. Check your local landlord-tenant rules once, then bake the notice into the reminder itself: the reminder’s date is when you send the notice, not when you knock.
What else on a rental runs on a clock?
The lease term itself, the landlord insurance policy, smoke and CO alarm checks, any required safety certificates in your area, and registration or license renewals where your city requires them. A rental is a stack of renewal dates wearing a front door.
The date is the easy part. Remembering is the product.
Reviewal keeps windows like this on one page — the whole year of them — and emails you before each one opens. Your calendar handles what's today; this is the layer above it. Free to start: 40 events, 3 sections, reminders included.
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