I’m thrilled to be part of the Rental Property Research Consortium and contribute to this dedicated team of researchers committed to tackling one of the most pressing challenges in housing stability in the US.

Throughout the spring semester I had the opportunity to work as an undergraduate researcher for the Rental Property Research Consortium at Iowa State University, under the supervision of Dr. Jane Rongerude. Coming out of COVID-19, the consortium was created in order to learn about Residential Rental Property Owners’ (RRPOs) responses to natural disasters, however since 2020 our study has expanded to gain a holistic understanding of the way RRPOs run their business. This year, our study surveyed residential rental property owners in 9 major cities across the country; Austin TX, Houston TX, Dallas TX, New Orleans LA, Miami FL, Tampa, FL, Minneapolis, MN, Cleveland OH, and Des Moines IA. These cities were selected based on their unique risks related to natural disasters and their responses to public health crises like COVID-19, allowing us to learn more about RRPOs’ responses to disaster situations.

The final round of our survey is out! We hope that our previous participants will stick with the study, and that residential rental property owners who are receiving surveys for the first time this year will choose to participate. The survey should only take about 10 minutes to complete, and we cannot do this work without you.

The second round of our post-Covid survey is out! We hope that our previous participants will stick with the study, and that residential rental property owners who are receiving surveys for the first time this year will choose to participate. The survey should only take about 10 minutes to complete, and we cannot do this work without you.

We are happy to share a new working paper summarizing our findings from our survey of residential landlords in Minneapolis, MN. We administered this survey between November 2020 and January 2021, asking landlords how the pandemic had impacted their businesses. Minneapolis still had an active eviction moratorium when our survey was live, but the federal government had yet to unveil the Emergency Rental Assistance program.

After completing our survey last spring, we conducted 52 follow up interviews with individuals who owned residential rental property in Cleveland, Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Tampa. The survey revealed that many landlords were experiencing pandemic-related stress in their rental business.

The pandemic has impacted every community across the nation in so many different ways. There has been loss of human life, loss of jobs, continued anxiety over the resurgence and spread of the COVID-19 virus, and political interference in matters relating to public health that have proven costly.

It is the summary of each variable we selected in the analysis.

It is important to discover the degree to which variables in your dataset are dependent upon each other. This knowledge can help you better to further analysis, such as linear regression, whose performance will degrade with the presence of these interdependencies.

How do residential property owners make leasing decisions, and how do their decision-making processes differ from other businesses? The primary goal of owners of rental properties is to maximize their return on their investments.

The past year has been unlike any that most of us have witnessed during our lives. While natural disasters and pandemics in specific parts of the world have occurred with growing frequency, the global scale and magnitude of COVID-19 will remain as one of the most devastating and disruptive events in world history.

We started this project with a simple question: How are landlords responding to the COVID 19 pandemic? In our early conversations as a research team, we realized that we could not predict how rental housing might play out as the shelter in place requirements stretched into the future and the economic repercussions of the pandemic continued to grow.

The purpose of this study is to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected owners of residential rental properties. In this survey, we are focusing on owners of self-managed properties.