Protecting Your Investment: A Must-Have Guide to Rental Property Insurance in San Francisco, CA

Protecting Your Investment: A Must-Have Guide to Rental Property Insurance in San Francisco, CA

Real estate investing is especially challenging and especially risky in an expensive, high-demand market like San Francisco, CA. To make things more complicated, a number of insurers are pulling out of California entirely, leaving homeowners with fewer options on how...
Property Insurance for Landlords Part 2 – Your San Francisco Property Management Company is an Additional Insured

Property Insurance for Landlords Part 2 – Your San Francisco Property Management Company is an Additional Insured

This is Part Two of a blog that includes information about required insurance for landlords and rental property owners. In the first blog, we discussed what types of coverage you need. Today, we are talking specifically about making sure your property management...
Landlord Insurance Part 1 – What Insurance Do I Need to Rent Out my San Francisco Home?

Landlord Insurance Part 1 – What Insurance Do I Need to Rent Out my San Francisco Home?

Today we are talking about the property insurance requirements for landlords. This is a complicated topic, so we are breaking it out into two parts. This blog is Part One, which will be a general explanation of the insurance you need when you’re renting out your...
Should I Add my Property Manager to my San Francisco Landlord Policy?

Should I Add my Property Manager to my San Francisco Landlord Policy?

If you are a client of Gordon Property Management, you know that we require you to name us as an additional insured on your liability policy. A lot of property owners wonder what exactly that means, and today we are going to talk a little bit about that and why it’s...
Should You Require Your San Francisco Tenant to Have Renters Insurance?

Should You Require Your San Francisco Tenant to Have Renters Insurance?

Our topic today is renters insurance. The latest lease agreement written by the San Francisco Apartment Association now has a clause in it that requires tenants to obtain renters insurance. That’s the lease we use and most of the San Francisco landlords we work with...