How do you name your units as far as when you discuss with your spouse or employees etc? Do you have "pet" names for them? I'm sure it's different for those who have many versus 1-2. We don't have multitudes, so we simply used the street name initially. This worked fine until we got two on the same street! So, of those two, one is near the Kroger grocery store...so now we call all others by the street name, and that one we call "Kroger".

We also have a couple on the same street. We refer to them as xxx-1 and xxx-2, from the first three letters of the street and the order we purchased them in.

Not all of them, but some of our first ones:

The tramp stamp (sold that one)

The chick magnet (seems to always house a single mom)

Doggie heaven (every single tenant ever has had one or two dogs)

Sugar Shack.

We use street names.

When we have two houses on the same street, it is big Aspen (4 bedroom) and little Aspen (2 bedroom), big Highland (4 bedroom) and little Highland (2 bedroom).

Don’t forget stinky Aspen (but don’t they all stink when you first buy them!).

Or leaky Vermont (leaking roof).

We have various names...no rhyme or reason

1. Virginia’s house (prior owner’s name)

2. Martha’s house, (prior owner)

3. Lake house

4. Some called by street names, Briar Ridge, Lemon st, Dix street, 117th etc...

5. Some called by tenants names: April’s house, Saulo’s house, Howard’s house etc

6. Tattoo man’s house (former tenant)

When it comes to Story Time, apartment numbers or letter don't do justice. So with family I have nick names. We select those names based on the tenants. Here are some of those nick names.

Tenant with a great Dane dog, "Horse Lady".

Crazy tenant with red hair, "Lucy (Ricardo)".

Man with 14 cats, "Meow Mix".

Dancer who was on Broadway in the Lion King,"the dancer".

A tenant who is petrified of bugs, even as small as an ant, "fearful".

Thank you Robert J

but the moment i spelled it there was a little red line under it .we will see how this goes sir

HAHA RobertJ ... I'm with you on that. It's not more of the property itself, it's the people that live there of how we refer to it.

Typically, just the street name or number (depending).

Don't nickname the rental, do nickname the tenant.

Wifey

Pants on fire

Storage Unit Guy

Navy guy

Nursey

How about thinking a little outside the box. Most of you are missing out on a great marketing opportunity by not giving a name to each rental that can be used when "promoting" the house to prospective residents. Take a page from the vacation rental playbook. Sure, use the street name but add a nice adjective behind it.

Rosewood Resting Place

Pine Street Palace

Curry Court Cottage

Clark Ave Castle

Seventh Place Refuge

Baker Road Lake House

Plenty, love your "The Sunshine House" example.

All of the apartment buildings are female.

Miss Prissy.

Miss Never satisfied

Miss Calm and collected

All puns are intended in the names.

Street number, street name, unit number or letter.

(Sometimes just Street number and unit number or letter.

We call one of them Eagle Cottage, a previously owned one was the Rose House, another was Oak House.

Hoosier,

The Goose (that lays golden eggs. A multi that just keeps giving!)

Corner Store (a former neighborhood store we converted into a duplex)

Burned House (former fire)

Banana (a giant house painted yellow)

Shop House (we kept the detached garage as a shop)

Velvet Angel (at turnover they left old computers and records for their online/phone $4.99 per minute operation called Velvet Angels. These women were the opposite of sexy but must have had sexy voices!)

Dog House (the tiniest house in the city)

BRAD

I saw a recording where Jeffrey taught on naming units as a way to stand out from the competition and we adopted his technique. If I remember correctly, he named a unit’s floor plan The Williamsburg.

I thought it was a bit hokey when I first heard it (sorry, Jeffrey!) but it has helped set us above our competition. Airbnb coaches suggest you name your unit as they are more memorable when they are named. Home plans are all named, mobile homes all have a name, cars have a name. Think about hotel or cruise rooms- many of the more expensive rooms are named. It makes sense.

As potential guests tour multiple homes, I think it is much easier for them to discuss “Peach House”, rather than, “You remember, that 3 bedroom 2 bath next to the house with the van in the driveway.” We also put the name of the home on any literature we have out for showings. I am working on having a floor plan to include on the literature as well.

When we first started, I was surprised by how many potential guests spoke about the unit by name rather than a generic, the home, or, the 3 bedroom you have available.

We are naming units as they become vacant. We have Pine Crest (home on a hill and covered with pine trees), Peach House (row of peach trees we planted), Pecan House (huge 80+ year old pecan trees), Meadow View (home adjacent to a meadow), and Stable View (home which has a view of the stable).

We are also ordering name plaques for the homes to further set us apart.

Thank you for the idea, Jeffrey!

All the best!

Renne

2185 Mansion

2195 Secluded & Quiet Cottage

2155 Garden & Lawn Home

0746 Bay Jackson Cottage

90824 Windy Lane Lanscaped .5 Acre

90822 Heritage Home

My uncle had about 10 scrappy little handmade lake front cottages, (the cement floor was smeared by hand, not a trowel) built during the Depression from scrap lumber. They all had cute rental cottage names

Bayside

Turtle

Bass

Crow's Nest (His name was Crow)

Nattie's Place (His name was Nathaniel Crow)

No Me Diga - Spanish for "You don't say! His catch phrase.

EVERYONE always asked about that name.

He sold those lots for 1 million each.

Streets & addresses/unit numbers. We have 2 duplexes and 1 triplex. The tri- and one duplex are adjacent. So if we are talking about the du-triplex location it is Division (st). The other duplex is 14th (St).

If referring to specific units I find it odd that we have a unit 1, unit 2, unit A, unit B, and unit C. Why one bldg used unit 1 & 2 and elsewhere units are lettered is beyond me, but it helps keep them straight. Then the 2nd duplex has individual numbers like house numbers (617 xxxx st; 619 xxxx st.) BTW, if you try using the tax records to look up the owner of 619 you won't find it 'cuz the tax parcel is 617 (the number on the other unit). I did once look at a property that had the same number as one of my current buildings. That could have been confusing.