All Forum Posts by: Christopher M Miller

Thank you all for the feedback.  

My wife and I have a rental property in San Antonio, Texas (Go Spurs Go!!!).  We've had a new tenant move in and hired a contractor remotely (we live on the East Coast) to mend to a few issues.  The previous tenant did not fill the water softener before leaving, so we had to hire for that.  

Once we got the invoice for services performed, we were charged 20.00 per per one 40 lbs bag of water softener pellets, for a total of three bags for 60 dollars.  Typically those bags retail for around 7 dollars.  We were also charged separately for labor.  

My wife wanted to fire off an angry email, however I told her to wait for 24 hours an ask what others have done when being overcharged by contractors for remote work.

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We have a rental property where a new tenant has settled in for about 4 months now.  Before turning it into rental property my family and I moved there and we took good care of it.

Our tenant has informed us they paid for dryer vent cleaning because the sensor on their dryer was having issues.  Cleaning the dryer vent didn't yield to much lint, however it cleared the error on the dryer.

The tenant didn't tell us they were going to do this first, did the repair and paid for it out of their own pocket. Once the work was done, then they told us about it.

We've told the tenants to tell us first before doing anything like this before paying for any type of repair.

My question to you all is that since the tenant paid for the repair, even though they sent us the receipt.  Can we claim this repair on our tax return?  We want to reimburse the tenant either way.  

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My wife and I talked about it more.  She thinks that studying for a real estate license would consume all of my weekend time.  

Did anyone else get their license while working full time?  

Hi, I'm Chris and live in the San Antonio area.  

I currently work full time in IT, however I was thinking about starting a side-hustle and that was purchasing real estate for passive income.  I will admit, I don't know much about doing this.  I've started to read blogs on this website along with Brandon Turner's book. 

I was thinking about making up for this lack of knowledge was to get a real estate license, to help me have a better understanding.  Just wondering how long it typically takes to get something like this and to maintain it?  Also would it be transferable if I were to move out of state, say to California?

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