Privacy Policy, Disclosures & Terms of Use

Last Updated: May 29, 2026

Overview

Welcome to BasicPropertyManagement.com. This Privacy Policy, Disclosures & Terms of Use explains how we collect and use information, how certain website features operate, and the terms that apply when you access our content, use our tools, download our resources, subscribe to our newsletter, purchase digital products, click affiliate links, submit information, or otherwise use this website.

By using BasicPropertyManagement.com, you agree to this Privacy Policy, Disclosures & Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use this website.

For purposes of this page, “BasicPropertyManagement.com,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to BasicPropertyManagement.com and J. Scott Digital LLC, as applicable.

General Informational Purpose Only

The content on this website reflects the opinions, research, editorial judgment, and educational perspective of the authors and contributors. It is intended for general informational and educational purposes only.

We do not know your personal circumstances, business structure, property, lease terms, tenants, market, jurisdiction, tax position, financing terms, insurance coverage, risk tolerance, investment objectives, or legal obligations. Because of that, nothing on this website should be treated as advice for your specific situation.

You should consult qualified professionals before making legal, tax, accounting, financial, lending, insurance, investment, property management, leasing, or business decisions. Depending on the issue, those professionals may include an attorney, CPA, tax advisor, financial advisor, lender, insurance professional, licensed real estate broker, licensed property manager, contractor, or other qualified advisor.

No Professional Relationship

Using this website, reading our content, downloading our materials, subscribing to our newsletter, using our calculators, purchasing digital products, contacting us, or clicking links on this website does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, tax advisor-client, financial advisor-client, lender-borrower, broker-client, property manager-client, fiduciary, agency, consulting, or other professional relationship.

We do not represent you, your company, your property, your tenants, your investors, your clients, or any transaction unless a separate written agreement expressly says otherwise.

Use of Tools and Calculators

BasicPropertyManagement.com may provide online calculators, worksheets, estimators, analysis tools, comparison tools, and related resources. These may include, but are not limited to, mortgage estimators, ROI calculators, cap rate calculators, cash flow calculators, rent affordability calculators, vacancy cost calculators, IRR calculators, DSCR calculators, depreciation estimators, 1031 exchange estimators, ownership structure comparison tools, property analysis tools, and other real estate-related tools.

Calculator and tool results are estimates only. They are based on information entered by the user and on assumptions that may not reflect actual property performance, market conditions, lender requirements, tax treatment, insurance costs, transaction expenses, vacancy, maintenance, capital expenditures, local laws, property condition, tenant behavior, financing terms, or other relevant factors.

We do not guarantee any calculation, estimate, projection, return, tax result, cash flow, valuation, loan approval, financing result, rental income, appreciation, investment outcome, or business result. You should not rely on any tool or calculator as the sole basis for making a purchase, sale, lease, financing, refinancing, tax, legal, management, or investment decision.

Before acting on any calculation or estimate, you should verify the inputs, review the assumptions, conduct independent due diligence, and consult qualified professionals as appropriate.

Free Downloads, Forms, Templates, Checklists, and Worksheets

BasicPropertyManagement.com may offer free or paid downloadable resources, including forms, templates, checklists, worksheets, spreadsheets, letters, notices, agreements, guides, reports, and other documents.

These materials are provided for general educational, planning, and organizational purposes only. They are not legal documents prepared for your specific jurisdiction, property, lease, tenant, transaction, business, or dispute.

Landlord-tenant laws, lease requirements, notice periods, rent increase rules, eviction procedures, security deposit rules, fair housing requirements, disclosure obligations, tax rules, accounting practices, and property management regulations vary by state, city, county, property type, lease terms, and individual circumstances.

You are responsible for reviewing, editing, adapting, and verifying any form, template, checklist, worksheet, spreadsheet, sample letter, notice, or agreement before using it. You should consult a qualified attorney, CPA, tax professional, licensed real estate professional, property manager, or other appropriate advisor before using any document in a real transaction, tenant communication, legal notice, tax filing, accounting record, or business decision.

We do not guarantee that any downloadable resource is complete, current, enforceable, legally compliant, tax compliant, suitable for your jurisdiction, or appropriate for your intended use.

Newsletter Signups and Free Download Access

Some free downloads, templates, checklists, worksheets, reports, or other resources may be offered in exchange for subscribing to our email newsletter. When you subscribe, we may collect information such as your name, email address, subscription source, requested download, signup date, IP address, and related technical information needed to deliver the requested resource and manage email communications.

By subscribing, you consent to receive email communications from BasicPropertyManagement.com. These communications may include educational content, property management insights, real estate investing information, market commentary, site updates, resource announcements, promotional messages, affiliate-related content, sponsor-related content, and other information related to our website and business.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us. Unsubscribing from marketing emails may not prevent us from sending transactional or administrative messages related to purchases, downloads, account access, customer service, legal notices, or other requested services.

Email Newsletter Privacy Information

We use MailPoet to manage and send our email newsletters. When you subscribe to our newsletter, your information may be processed through MailPoet or related service providers used to deliver email communications, manage subscriber lists, track email performance, process unsubscribe requests, and maintain deliverability.

Email analytics may include whether an email was delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, or unsubscribed from. This information helps us improve our content, monitor deliverability, and manage our subscriber list.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link included in our emails. You may also contact us using the contact information at the bottom of this page.

eBook Purchases and Payment Processing

When you purchase an eBook, guide, bundle, digital product, or other paid resource from our website, the transaction may be handled by third-party partners. We may use Payhip as our storefront to process orders and deliver digital products. Payments may be processed by PayPal, Stripe, or another payment processor, depending on the option you select.

We do not collect or store your full credit card details or other sensitive payment information on our website servers. Payment information is handled by the applicable payment processor.

During the purchase process, we or our service providers may collect information necessary to fulfill your order, such as your name, email address, billing information, order details, transaction records, and product delivery information. This information may be used to deliver your purchase, communicate with you about your order, maintain business records, address customer service issues, comply with legal obligations, and manage our digital product business.

You should review the privacy policies and terms of the applicable third-party platforms before completing a purchase:

• Payhip Privacy Policy
• PayPal Privacy Statement
• Stripe Privacy Policy

Market Reports, Rankings, Company Lists, and Research Content

BasicPropertyManagement.com may publish market reports, rankings, company lists, software comparisons, service provider overviews, investment market commentary, real estate trend analysis, and other research-based content.

These materials are provided for general informational and educational purposes only. Any rankings, comparisons, market screens, company profiles, “best of” lists, reports, or commentary reflect our editorial judgment, available source material, stated methodology where applicable, and information available at the time of publication or update.

Market conditions, company services, fees, ratings, regulations, availability, performance, software features, business practices, and public information can change without notice. We do not guarantee that any market, company, product, service, software platform, investment strategy, property type, or business opportunity will perform as described.

Inclusion in a report, ranking, article, list, comparison, or company profile does not constitute an endorsement, warranty, investment recommendation, legal recommendation, tax recommendation, or professional advice.

You should conduct your own due diligence and consult appropriate professionals before hiring a company, purchasing software, choosing a market, investing in real estate, buying or selling property, entering a lease, making a financing decision, or relying on any third-party product or service.

Affiliate Links, Advertising, and Sponsored Relationships

Some pages, posts, emails, tools, reports, downloads, banners, buttons, or resource recommendations on BasicPropertyManagement.com may include affiliate links, referral links, paid placements, sponsored references, advertising relationships, or other commercial relationships.

If you click an affiliate or referral link and make a purchase, sign up for a service, request information, begin a trial, or complete another qualifying action, we may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. This compensation may help support website hosting, content creation, research, tools, templates, newsletters, and site maintenance.

Compensation does not guarantee a positive review, ranking, recommendation, or placement. We aim to provide useful, good-faith information, but you should evaluate any product, service, software provider, lender, marketplace, listing platform, property management company, advertiser, sponsor, or third-party resource independently before using it.

Sponsored content, paid placements, or advertising relationships may be identified where appropriate. However, the presence of a link, company, product, service, banner, button, or resource on this website does not guarantee suitability, quality, availability, accuracy, results, or compliance with your specific needs.

Third-Party Websites, Tools, and Services

Our website may link to or reference third-party websites, tools, software platforms, calculators, videos, payment processors, affiliate partners, listing platforms, professional service providers, government websites, data sources, advertisers, sponsors, and other outside resources.

We do not control third-party websites or services and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, privacy practices, data collection, cookies, tracking technologies, security, terms, pricing, claims, products, services, or business practices.

Your use of third-party websites or services is governed by their own privacy policies, terms of use, disclosures, refund policies, subscription terms, cancellation terms, and other applicable rules. You should review those policies before providing personal information, making a purchase, starting a trial, submitting payment information, or relying on their content.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles and pages on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, maps, charts, social media posts, tools, forms, widgets, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website directly.

These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that third-party website.

Information We May Collect

You can access BasicPropertyManagement.com and read most articles without submitting personal information. However, we may collect information when you interact with certain site features, including newsletter signup forms, download forms, contact forms, purchase pages, advertising inquiry forms, affiliate inquiry forms, guest post forms, or other submission forms.

Information we may collect includes:

• Name
• Email address
• Business name
• Website URL
• Message content or inquiry details
• Download or subscription preferences
• Purchase and order information
• Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, pages visited, date and time of visit, and general usage information

We may use administrative, analytics, security, email, payment, and website tools to operate the site, deliver content, process transactions, monitor performance, protect against abuse, and improve the user experience.

How We May Use Information

We may use information collected through the website for purposes including:

• Delivering requested downloads, templates, reports, tools, newsletters, or digital products
• Responding to contact forms, advertising inquiries, guest post inquiries, affiliate inquiries, and other submissions
• Sending newsletter communications and related email updates
• Processing purchases and delivering digital products
• Maintaining business, accounting, tax, and transaction records
• Improving website content, navigation, tools, emails, and user experience
• Monitoring site performance, analytics, security, and technical issues
• Preventing spam, fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, scraping, attacks, or misuse of the website
• Complying with legal obligations and enforcing our rights

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies to operate the website, improve performance, understand visitor behavior, protect the site, remember preferences, and evaluate content effectiveness.

Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device. Some cookies may be necessary for site functionality. Others may help us understand how visitors use the website or interact with emails and content.

We may use analytics tools, such as Google Analytics or similar services, to understand general traffic patterns, page views, referral sources, device information, and usage trends. You can manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect the functionality of some website features.

Security and Abuse Prevention

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and security measures designed to help protect the website and the information we process. These measures may include SSL encryption, security plugins, firewall tools, spam prevention tools, hosting security, access controls, and monitoring for suspicious activity.

When necessary, IP addresses, user agents, request patterns, and related technical information may be used to identify, limit, block, or investigate abusive traffic, spam, scraping, attempted attacks, unauthorized access, or other misuse of the website.

No website, server, database, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information transmitted to or from the website.

User Submissions, Guest Posts, and Advertising Inquiries

If you submit a guest post inquiry, advertising inquiry, affiliate inquiry, contact form, email, business proposal, content submission, or other information to us, we may collect and use the information you provide to review, respond to, manage, approve, reject, edit, publish, or otherwise process your submission.

Submitting content or an inquiry does not guarantee publication, acceptance, approval, a response, advertising placement, affiliate participation, or any business relationship.

We may decline, edit, remove, or refuse submissions at our discretion. Do not submit confidential, proprietary, sensitive, or personal information unless you are comfortable sharing it with us for the stated purpose.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Content on this website, including articles, reports, downloads, templates, forms, graphics, images, page layouts, tools, text, branding, and other materials, is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws unless otherwise stated.

You may access and use website content for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes. Unauthorized use, reproduction, republication, copying, scraping, redistribution, resale, modification, or duplication of website content, in whole or in part, is prohibited without our express written permission.

Some images, videos, embedded materials, or third-party content used or referenced on this website may be owned by third parties and used under applicable licenses, permissions, or platform terms.

Permitted and Prohibited Uses

You may use this website for lawful personal, educational, informational, and business research purposes.

You may not use this website to:

• Violate any law, regulation, third-party right, or contractual obligation
• Copy, scrape, harvest, republish, resell, or redistribute website content without permission
• Use automated bots, crawlers, scripts, or scraping tools in a way that burdens, damages, or misuses the website
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our website, servers, systems, email tools, forms, or databases
• Submit false, misleading, defamatory, infringing, unlawful, spammy, or malicious content
• Use our templates, downloads, or content in a way that falsely suggests we represent, endorse, advise, or are affiliated with you
• Interfere with the security, performance, availability, or proper operation of the website

Accuracy, Updates, and No Warranty

We strive to provide useful and accurate information, but we do not guarantee that any content, calculator, template, form, checklist, worksheet, spreadsheet, report, ranking, company profile, link, download, email, or resource on this website is complete, current, accurate, error-free, uninterrupted, or suitable for your circumstances.

Real estate markets, laws, regulations, tax rules, insurance requirements, lender standards, software features, company offerings, prices, interest rates, local practices, and third-party information change over time. Content may become outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate after publication.

All content, tools, downloads, and resources are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, and uninterrupted availability.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, BasicPropertyManagement.com, J. Scott Digital LLC, and their owners, members, managers, contributors, contractors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors, partners, and service providers will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, exemplary, or other damages arising from or related to your use of this website, tools, calculators, downloads, templates, reports, rankings, newsletters, emails, links, third-party resources, or digital products.

This includes, but is not limited to, lost profits, lost rents, lost opportunities, vacancy losses, investment losses, tax consequences, legal claims, compliance issues, financing decisions, purchase or sale decisions, tenant disputes, business interruption, data loss, reputational harm, or reliance on any content or resource provided through the website.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, deliver requested resources, manage subscriptions, process transactions, respond to inquiries, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, protect the website, and enforce our rights.

For example, we may retain purchase records for tax, accounting, and business recordkeeping purposes. Newsletter records may be retained while you remain subscribed and for a reasonable period after unsubscribing to maintain suppression records and avoid sending unwanted marketing emails.

Your Data Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to request access to personal information we hold about you, request correction of inaccurate information, request deletion of certain information, object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent from email marketing, or request information about how your data is used.

To make a privacy-related request, contact us using the information at the bottom of this page. We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for adults interested in real estate, property management, investing, business, and related educational topics. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, please contact us so we can review and address the issue.

International Visitors

Our website is operated from the United States, and our servers, service providers, or business systems may be located in the United States or other countries. If you access this website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other jurisdictions.

By using this website, you understand that privacy laws in the jurisdiction where information is processed may differ from those in your location.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy, Disclosures & Terms of Use from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms. We encourage you to review this page periodically.