All Forum Posts by: Joshua Yang

@Jim Goebel, @Greg M.,

Thanks for your replies. I have thought about changing the lock, but is it legal? Like in landlord/tenant disputes, the landlord has to take legal actions to evict the tenant, instead of changing the lock to lock the tenant out right away.
The difference here is, tenant is protected by the lease agreement. I, as the owner, never signed any contract with Airbnb or guests. So Presumably I am not obligated at all.

Hello fellow investors!

I am recently running into a nasty situation with my business partner, involving an Airbnb listing and selling a house.

My partner and I are flipping a house through a JV agreement. I am the capital investor who is the sole owner of the property. My partner is responsible for rehab and sell the house. Nobody can lease the house for any purpose. All of these are stated in the JV.

The rehab was done a while ago. The house has been listed on market for a few months and not moving anywhere. my partner started pocketing income by listing the house on Airbnb without any written consent from me. It has been creating tremendous difficulties for showings since the property is always occupied and Airbnb guests of course are not happy about open house or potential buyers visiting. And some of potential buyers are kicked out by tenants.

My partner has been ignoring my requests to cancel the listing. Surprisingly, Airbnb refuses to make any enforcement for this. All they are willing to offer is to forward a letter to the host who is my business partner. 

My highest priority here is to sell the house and recoupe my capital back. With Airbnb in the way, I can hardly do it. Any suggestions on how I can legally take the house back and remove it from Airbnb website? Again, I am the sole owner of the house. There should be plenty of ways to do it legally. Can you please suggest one which is most efficient and causes less damage?

Thanks in advance!

I just started to use Schlage Sense about 2 months ago. This is different from the other Z-Wave products because it supports Apple's HomeKit.

The lock is connected to an AppleTV 3 and I can monitor and configure the lock remotely without any issue so far. Battery is still 99% after almost 2 month although I am not sure how accurate that is.

The reason I choose Schlage over Kwikset is it seems Schlage still is updating their App quite frequently.

@Kevin Kelsey It seems Smartbnb only supports Airbnb and I believe what Tina wants is the ability to sync the same property listing on Airbnb and VRBO etc. Am I missing something?

Thank you all! That's what I thought. I am able to do more in-depth search and even see scans of original documents so I was hoping I can do the same here.

Thanks again!

Hi,

I am from Washington and looking into investing in Ohio. I am looking at Hamilton County right now. Since I am new to this area I am having difficulty finding recorded public docs such as deed of trust, warranty deed, etc online. For example, on a county recorder's office website, can I search by an LLC name and find out the properties owned by this LLC in the past? Tried, but not luck.

I am not a real estate agent. Don't know if an MLS transaction can be searched through seller's name.

Any help is appreciated. 

Thanks,

I haven't heard any update on this since last summer. Any idea if this is going to becoming a law soon? 

Hi,

Anyone can refer a contractor in Bellevue? Thanks!