All Forum Posts by: Samantha Hiscock

I am of the instant-gratification generation, I want what I want when I want it! I made it clear to my realtor he had no more than 4 hours to respond to an email during daytime hours and 7 if in the middle of the night. He has always been on top of things, and it may take a bit of searching but plenty are just as diligent as him. Ask around to other investors in the area, thats how I found mine. 

I had a similar issue when I purchased a 4 unit and moved into one of the apartments.  I called the police multiple times per day for months. I took videos and wrote down license plates. They got pretty sick of me and stopped showing up. I spoke with the owner of the property and made it clear I wasn't going to tolerate the constant traffic and drug activity.  Eventually I told the cops I would head over there with my pals Smith & Wesson if they weren't going to respond in a timely fashion. The tenants left about a month later because I had hurt their "business" so much. I would imagine threatening to visit drug dealers with a gun is a drastic measure to most, but I was young and foolish and 19 year old thugs didn't scare me too much. 

That was 5 years ago and the tenants on the street still know me as "the crazy landlord" and a police presence on the street hasn't been necessary since. 

Yes, I will be there. I welcome any excuse to blow off the mandatory parents meeting for my kids sports team! ;-) I look forward to meeting you Thursday! 

I live in a very rural state and if meetups were gender (or any group) specific there would literally only be one or two people in attendance.  My local group typically has a max attendance of 25, with about 15 being average.  I am often the only woman there. The group is 90% white males over the age of 65; my issue is with age more than gender, as I joined at 25. There are serious generational gaps with strategy, motivation, intention, technology, and wealth that prohibit constructive interaction much more than gender. 

I've heard mixed reviews regarding this group. There is a meeting this Thursday (3/26), is it worth attending? Does anyone out there in BP-land plan on going? My local group is now defunct because 70% of them run off to Florida 5 months out of the year. I'd like to find a new group that means atleast somewhat regularly.

Vermont is 60 days, and thats after the 4-6 month eviction process. Movers and a rented storage unit are the best way to CYA. 

I owned a 4 unit building and my husband was one of my tenants. He had lived in the apartment below me for about 18 months and finally made his move, 7 weeks later we eloped!

We obviously couldn't fit my child and 2 of his in either of our 2 bedroom apartments, so I told him we needed to buy a new house. He freaked out and said he couldn't afford it, I told him just to sign where I told him to and I would deal with the rest.

He quickly became a believer (and really mad at himself!) when he realized the mortgage on our 3 bedroom house was less than the rent he had been paying to me for his 2 bedroom apartment!! He is a geek by trade, but super handy and loves doing all the repair work. We now rent that house and have purchased another, but with baby #4 due in a matter of weeks I think our house hacking days are over and we have to figure out another way to buy more properties.

Well, their "terrier mixes", lack of actual income (food stamps DO NOT qualify as income!), and the fact that they requested I lower the rent by $300 so "they wouldn't have to pay anything extra" above and beyond their Section 8 voucher were also on the list of reasons the entire family was punished! :-)

Although the cake thing really pissed me off, I spent like 2 hours baking it from scratch!

I was showing a SFH that I was living in to some prospective tenants. I had spoken with them on the phone and told them they needed to bring proof of income with them and I could give them an application to fill out. They called about 5 minutes before the appointment to ask if they could bring their kids, as we had a snow day that day. I said no problem; my kids also had a snow day but fully understand this is my job and they needed to sit quietly on the couch playing the Wii.

A 15 year old minivan pulled up and out climbed 5 of the most ragged children I had ever seen (later on the application I saw that the kids had 4 different last names!). They came in and I showed them around, some of the kids sat on the couch with mine but atleast 2 were tearing through my house with no supervision. The mother kept gushing over how nice the house is and how BIG it is. (We were moving out because I felt that a 3/1 1500sq.ft  house was too small for my family of 5. They were a family of 7.)

The parents and I went to the kitchen to discuss specifics and so I could ask them my standard questions. I started to ask about income and they told me "No problem at all! I even brought the proof like you wanted!", and then proceeded to hand me their monthly statement from the Economic Services showing me all their welfare benefits! Just as the father handed me the "proof of income" one of their younger kids walked in and the mother started telling me how well behaved her kids were. It was actually my birthday that day, and I had just finished baking and frosting a cake prior to their arrival. Their "well-behaved child" saw this cake on the stove and literally took a FISTFULL right out of the center of my birthday cake. The parents laughed and made zero attempt to correct the child... Application DENIED!