They also get to charge for the turnover when the bum has to get evicted and - even worse - some PMs still charge their management fee for the apartment that is vacant because they placed a bad tenant.Make sure your PM's goals and yours are aligned.

Based on the number of homeless people who live in the bushes on your block, having a short term rental is going to end up with enough vacant nights that eventually you'll have bums breaking in - and those guys can do a lot of damage in a very short amount of time.

Quite a few 'experts' (mostly press but here in BP Nation too) thought the pandemic induced moratorium would create a backlog of defaults, and that once lifted, the wave of foreclosures would hit and result in a crippling blow to the real estate market (Google search.) 

If the tenant has a good job with income or credit to go after then it holds more weight with a tenant versus them being a bum and hopping from rental to rental to just exist.no legal advice - hope it helps

“We are trying to induce greater compliance among rental property owners and wanting them to understand they have to register,” Mingo said Thursday.The fine for not registering rental properties is $50, but Mingo is raising that to $150 — the most the law allows — beginning in December 2018 when property tax bills due in 2019 are mailed.

If you are signing contracts with NO WAY to close, you are committing FRAUD BY INDUCEMENT.

I was pretty bummed about that, but a second problem arose.

I was going to be really bummed for you if that deal didn't work out.

Looks like this deal is not going to happen, I am bummed out because I though it was a good deal for the price I offered him.

The tenants seem like bums and gamers.