All Forum Posts by: Catherine Javier

Hello there BP Community!

We are new in Airbnb. We have a property in Tacoma and started MTR last year, we were so used to Furnished Finder and were a bit overwhelmed with Airbnb. 
We do a hybrid MTR and just started STR in between. This might be a silly question but we are really not sure on how to compute for the average rental period. Our goal is to do the STR loophole (less than 7 days or less.)


Do we just add all the numbers of rented dates and divide by the total number of guests or tenant?

Or.. let’s say we have 3 guest who stayed 60-90 days and 15 guests less than 7 days?

Thank you in advance!

Thank you @alecia! We just turned down the tenant… 

Hi everyone!

An interested tenant wants to lease our furnished home. 3 dogs and 4th is an ESA. Based on experience, we usually have 1 dog/family or tenant. 

How much is a reasonable non refundable pet fee? Usually we charge $150/month Based on comps. 
and it should be per pet, i am assuming. (For a midterm stay)

I am not sure if this matters, they’re Mutts and American bully.

and just in case they want to do a long term route, how much is the reasonable charge?

thanks everyone!

Hello BP Community!

My spouse & I have 1 LTR with a property manager, all 4 other unit we self manage as furnished MTR. We usually lease our home for 1-3 mos only. We have a new applicant right now and this is for a Class B property. The applicant (with wife, 2 small kids & a cat) want to lease our furnished home for 1 year. It is a single family home. How much security deposit do we ask for? 

Also, this applicant is coming from abroad. He is a doctor on a visa for practice or education (if I am not mistaken). How do I screen him since he does not have a US number yet or SSN ( also not sure if he will have it).

The documents he sent me are his passport, his US Visa and his contact. He will be having the residency to the hospital where I used to work.

This property is in Orlando FL. We are currently in WA for work…

Just asking your brilliant minds for enlightenment! 

Thank you!

Hello friends!

My wife and I are both travel nurses and we decided that I will pursue to be a real estate agent as a side hustle. We are from FL but will accept a staff nurse position in WA. We have 2 MTR's, 1 LTR in Orlando and 1 MTR in WA which we are house hacking right now. 

My eyes lit up every time I hear things about real estate and I think it will be helpful for our family if I pursue this.

This will be a new arena for me and I do not know how to start. I guess what I am getting at is how do I start being a real estate agent. I researched a bit and most of them recommended Rockwell.  

If I do the standard hours, how long before I can get my RE license.. and once I get the license, how do I begin? Do I apply to a company/broker.

Any information will be useful!

Thanks in advance!

Hello BP family! Asking for help & guidance, I am new in this landlording & tenant screening.

We have a two bath, two bedroom condo in Orlando. It is A midterm rental. The current applicant wants fo lease for 6 mos. He has 500 credit score and has two criminal backgrounds. 1st criminal was traffic- running in red. 2nd was battery of an officer in 2019 and was charged as felony.  We are not comfortable renting out to him. Our mindset might be wrong, pls advise.

If we decline, how do we tell him correctly & politely? 

Thank you!

Hello BP family, we are planning to renovate and upgrade the master and guest bathroom, and add a kitchenette.

The first contractor is the one that we used for Our Rental, he is good, but it’s not responding back on a timely manner. Until now we don’t have a quote for the job and it has been almost 2 wks. 

The second GC Is referred by our lender. He is also a real estate agent. He quoted us 20k For two bathroom renovations with the kitchenette- labor only… And he said that he can finish the job in two weeks.

The third GC is one of the vendors from Opendoors who repaired our door. He quoted for 20k but woth labor & some materials (some we need to buy) he said he can finish in 3-4wks. 

We have no idea how much would the material cost for the bathroom renovations…

Any thoughts? Who should we choose?

Both of them asks for a 50% down payment. Is this normal? The two other renovations we had, contractor asked to be paid halfway on their job.

thank you so much. By the way, this renovation is in Florida Orlando area.