A greeting from our new team member, Sam Mindes

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. Read More

June 3, 2025

Reflections from Undergraduate Research Assistant Will Seemiller

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. Read More

May 30, 2025

Our Last Year of Data Collection!

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. Read More

March 26, 2025

The Survey is Out!

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. Read More

October 6, 2023

Rental Property Owner Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results from a Minneapolis, MN survey

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. Read More

January 14, 2022

Rental property owners and pandemic-related stress

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. Read More

September 29, 2021

What I learned about Rental Registries*

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. Read More

August 29, 2021

The summaries of variables

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

May 26, 2021

Pairwise correlation between variables

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. Read More

May 10, 2021

Understanding Property Owner Decision-Making

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. Read More

March 30, 2021