Real Estate & Property Management

Advice for landlords from someone who owns and manages rentals.

I own Welch Property Solutions, my real estate and property management company, and co-founded Days Away Rentals, a vacation rental management company in Southern Maine — and I own rental property in Maine and Massachusetts myself. I help landlords and property owners set the right rent, put the right lease and systems in place, and run their properties without it taking over their week.

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Most of the money is made or lost in the setup.

The wrong rent, a lease that doesn't hold up, or no real system for repairs and turnovers — those are the mistakes that are hardest to undo later.

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Things I keep up to date because I use them on my own properties.

Free · Cumberland & York counties

Southern Maine Rent Index

What long-term rentals are asking right now in every town in Cumberland and York counties, by bedroom count, with the typical range and how rents are moving. Updated twice a month.

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Free · Long-term rentals

Rent Comp for Your Property

A low, mid and high rent range for one specific property, built from 6 to 12 active listings that match it on bedrooms, baths and size, with the utilities, pets, parking and laundry terms for each.

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Free reference · Maine

Short-Term Rental Rules by Town

Registration, fees, caps, where you can operate and what's changing, town by town across Maine, with links to each town's own rules. Checked weekly. New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont are coming.

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Free · via Days Away Rentals

STR Revenue Comp Analysis

What a property could earn as a short-term rental: projected annual revenue, nearby comparable listings and the peak and slow months.

Matt is co-founder of Days Away Rentals, a Southern Maine vacation rental management company, which prepares and delivers the report.

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Where I Help

From setting the rent to running the building.

Scoped one at a time, same as my consulting work — a call first, then a written scope and a fixed fee before anything starts.

Pricing & Leasing

Rent Pricing

What the unit should rent for, read against the listings it's actually competing with — and when it's worth raising, holding, or adding something to justify more.

Leases & Landlord Setup

A Maine-compliant lease with the disclosures it needs, deposits and fees set up correctly, and the paperwork in one place before the first tenant moves in.

Tenant Process

Screening criteria applied the same way every time, a clean move-in and move-out, and a renewal rhythm so a good tenant doesn't leave by surprise.

Running the Property

Property Management Systems

How repairs get reported, who fixes them and how fast — work orders, a vendor bench, turnover standards and a maintenance calendar, so the property runs without you chasing it.

HOA & Condo Associations

Practical management for small associations: budgets and reserves, vendor contracts, owner communication and the rules people actually follow.

Renovation Punch List

A room-by-room scope of what needs doing before a unit goes back on the market, prioritized by what tenants and guests notice, as a list your contractor can work from.

Vacation & Mid-Term Rentals

Regulations & Revenue

Whether the town allows short-term rental and under what rules, and what the property should earn against real comparables — the answers that should come before the offer, not after.

Listing & Pricing Review

An outside read on the listing and the rates — photos, title, amenities, minimum stays and seasonal pricing — and what to change first.

Guest-Ready Operations

The documents that make a furnished rental run without you: a guest guidebook, a room-by-room cleaner manual, and turnover standards your team can follow.

Who You're Working With

An owner and operator, not an observer.

Twenty-three years in sales and leadership, rental property of my own in Maine and Massachusetts, owner of Welch Property Solutions, and a co-founder of Days Away Rentals in Southern Maine. I'm in the numbers on real properties every month — rent decisions, repairs and turnovers, a town changing its rules.

That's the whole reason to talk to me instead of a spreadsheet. I'll tell you when a property doesn't work, because I've owned the version that didn't.

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Whether it's a property you own, one you're looking at, or a building that's running you instead of the other way around, fifteen minutes and a link is usually enough to tell you something useful.

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