11.01.14 Book Review: The Renters’ Survival Kit by Ed Sacks
Saturday, November 01
Decided to read up on the other side of the tenant-landlord education. I also look for and attend the free lawyer session at the library discussing tenant rights. I want to hear what is important to tenants, what type of counsel they get about their rights, and make sure I am staying educated a...
10.24.14 - The Young and the Restless: the continuing saga
Friday, October 24
Our exasperating tenant is young, I’m getting very restless.We've had some progress this week, but I’m not sure we are any closer to my desired outcome.The latest developments: We served a new 3 day pay or quit. We mutually agreed to move forward with eviction unless we could get at least $300 i...
10.17.14 Tenant co-signer is on Hospice
Friday, October 17
When I was writing my 2014 real estate goals, I wrote success measures as having less high cost tenant move outs and having fewer borderline tenants to manage. By those metrics, our year is shaping into an epic failure.What has happened most recently with our non-paying tenants:The boyfriend/tena...
10.11.14: Book Review: From 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years
Saturday, October 11
My quest to read one real estate or business book a month continues. This month I splurged a bit to buy From 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years by Steve McKnight. I hate paying over $10 for a used book just on general principle.Steve McKnight is in Australia and started with buying houses and sel...
10.03.14 Rent money going toward meth?
Friday, October 03
Some may remember the young family that moved into one of our duplexes in the middle of September. No rental history, their parents are tired of housing them, he is a registered sex offender, they have new jobs, and their grandma co-signed.Since move in two things have happened. First, they app...
09.26.14 Our Current Applicant Pool, Part 2
Friday, September 26
Didn’t get a lot of response on my part 1 post about applicants, but we’re still in the throes of fixing and renting our 3 bedroom SFR, so here we still are.It’s been interesting trying to clarify our goals of what we would ideally like in a tenant at this property. On one hand, we’d like to ge...