All Forum Posts by: Emily Chen

Thanks for all your help!

I contacted my property manager with some advice you recommended, such as check her license validity, call her Re/Max affiliation, and  plan to file a complaint, but leave legal action as last resort. I got some positive feedback from her and hope to get my checks back soon. By the way I already changed property manager. It is a bit late but a good lesson to learn.

Thanks again!

Emily

My property manage company started to have late checks, bounced checks, and miss paying checks since 2018. Now I changed property manager. I called and emailed, the owner never reply. The property manager said she collect rent from tenant but she does not issue the check. I have never seen this type of property management before. How do I get the missed payments back (last 3 month rent)? Please advise. Thanks!

Thanks all! Unfortunately, the settlement wasn't the only problem with property (voids beneath slab, issues with plumbing, "interesting" repair techniques, and a whole of lot of other things that added up to a "no" for me at the price and my current experience level).  Back on the hunt! 

During my search, I put together a spreadsheet of inspectors various people recommended to me - hopefully this will be helpful for the next person who searches for something similar.  (I hope it's all right to post that here - if not, let me know and I'll remove it.)  

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RR5IYOeiLJ...

@Bruce Runn-  I love your attitude of "nothing is impossible with some $."  I still a beginner but I hope to get to that level of knowledge and confidence one day! 

Hi all! 

I'm a fairly new investor in the Twin Cities. I just had an offer accepted on a duplex built in the 1900s. (My first house hack, hopefully!)

I've never owned or managed a property built before 2000, so I feel out of my depth. It seems well maintained, but there was some settling and sloping of the floors. No major cracking or other warning signs that I could see, there are tenants safely living in the house, and the TISH was pretty clean (although it did mention the sloping floors).  I rented a house with sloping floors in college, and had no issues with it, but then again I didn't own the property!

Does anyone have any recommendations for inspectors who are experienced with old houses, particularly sloping floors?  Anything you recommend that I watch out for?

Thanks so much for your help!