All Forum Posts by: Carl Hebert

I have been using Allstate and the rates have been really good. I have landlord policies on all my buildings. 

@Bethany Turon thanks again for setting this up! 

@Chelsea A., connect with @Bethany Turon as she set this last one up and will be posting the next one. 

Was a great turnout for our first meetup in Lewiston/Auburn. 
There is a lot of interest in central Maine. 

Didn't this bill fail?

@Bethany Turon thanks for putting this together!

I started off by buying in my personal name and even after I formed an LLC I still bought properties in my name for the better financing. I then wanted to pull out some well gained equity and rolled all my mortgages into one loan under the LLC. The unexpected bonus was my personal credit got a boost and I no longer had any long term debt personally. The LLC loans and lines of credit no longer affected my personal credit.

@Corazon B. I list the address of the unit. Would you want to rent a place and not know where it is? If someone wants to take the time to break into an empty apartment and take the fridge I have insurance for that. :)

@Corazon B. Hi Corazon, I used Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and Apartments.com for my last rental here in Cape Coral. Had plenty of applicants. 

In the future I will post to those and also use the syndication feature available to me through RentecDirect. 

Also if you plan on renting to people who are on section 8 you can get a hold of the Lee County Housing Authority as they are always looking for places and they currently have a bonus (I believe it is still available) if you rent to someone who has section 8.

My places up in Lewiston, Maine are almost always rented through Facebook Marketplace. 

HI @Chris Cogan, there should not be any issues with having mini splits as a heat source. It is becoming quite common in Maine to have for your main source of heat. 

I would look at keeping the heater you have there also, unless it is so unsightly you feel it negates the security of having a back up heat source. If you are renting it out you could just have the tenant know that it is part of the heat system as a backup.