All Forum Posts by: Steven Wiltz

I'm a landlord & MH guy in Port Orchard. . Join PROA, local landlord group. Gimme a call three six zero 265 sixteen nineteen 

yup, got several. Thing is, nobody wants them, so they're cheap. No equity, hard to sell (financing difficult to find), but they give milk like a dairy farm. Rents /cashflow comparable to a stick-bilt

I wouldn't use PayPal ; it can be disputed, hanging up your rent. Make it easy for you first, tenants maybe.

I use deposit-only debit cards into my business checking. Each tenant gets a card printed with their address, and every card's pin is 1234. Tenants can only deposit, and only at an atm. No tellers, no balances, no withdrawals. And late night, weekends, or holidays don't matter. Wish I'd done this years ago. 

gross Polaroids... Check 

Sex toys... Check

Piles of poop... Check

Ashes of dead pet... Check

Ashes of dead mother... Check

Operating big screen TV... Check

Wheelchairs... Check

Weed... Check

Others not previously mentioned:

Cash...  (~$650)

Jewelery... Once, a $2500 appraised diamond & ruby ring, just recently a diamond & Opal ring

Full liquor cabinet

19" TV buried screen up in the yard, just below the sod with the cord sticking out (WTF?) 

148 jugs of urine

Huge antique wardrobe (think Narnia here) 

2-foot tall pyramid of used adult diapers, slung from the recliner surrounded by half-gallon brandy bottles; clogged toilet and double vanity sinks all pooped full to the brim; box spring with a fetal-position body-shaped impression left because of continual peeing the bed, enough so to rust out the metal springs in the shape of their body... All of this in the same house as the cash, sex toys, and ruby ring. 

... just off the top of my head. 

David M, that's not cat pee you smell... it's MONEY! 

C'mon man! 

also, regularly visit mrlandlord.com, buy his book The Landlords Kit, study study study 

no biting history, pet agreement signed, no visiting pets, no unapproved replacements, $150 pet *fee* (not refundable - just the word "deposit" implies refundable) per animal and $25 rent bump. 

one source I use is the S8 rates. Check with your housing authority. In my area, the 2 bed rate is a little less than I want, but it's ballpark. The 3 bed rate is high, so I like it lots! 

Where are you located in wa? 

move

it's funny how failures/repairs seems to attract themselves, and every year it's a different wave/trend. Two years ago, water heaters failing; last year, furnaces. This year, it's been electric stoves: burner sockets, burner coils, switches. 

Hello 2016...what next?