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4 February 2025 | 3 replies
Anyone have any experiencing getting the city/utlities company to add separate meters?
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11 February 2025 | 11 replies
Companies that hire in-house bookkeepers are victims of fraud more times than you can count.
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10 February 2025 | 21 replies
It also appears Investor's Edge may have rebranded from their old company name "Do Hard Money".Propstream screenshot:"Investor's Edge/Dohardmoney" screenshot:
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29 January 2025 | 5 replies
The SMARTEST thing I did...was follow a "who" not a brand or company or model or some "thing".
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11 February 2025 | 6 replies
My business partner and I just opened up our property managment company in the Chicago/Chicagoland area and it is not easy to do this the "right way".Honestly you can get yourself into some serious trouble if something happened with a tenant, an injury, anything and they sue and find out you don't have a license.
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10 February 2025 | 6 replies
Additionally, ATCP 134.05 says that if the tenant provides a consumer credit report from an agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis and it is less than 30 days old, the landlord may still run a credit check but at its own expense.When I inquired with the company, they replied: "These laws are in place to ensure that you, as a landlord, are not profiting by incentivizing multiple applicants to apply when you have no intent to rent to them.
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8 February 2025 | 5 replies
1st step is to make sure that the electricity is rated for having electric heat by the electric company.
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2 February 2025 | 9 replies
We hope that you can remedy the situation so that we can move into a habitable home.Suggestions that we have to fix the issues:Hire a company to rip up the carpets, treat the subfloors, and replace the carpets, at least on the main level and on the stairs.Provide an air purifier as a start to remedying the smell.Replace the garbage disposal.Hire a plumber to fix the draining issue in the bathroom sink of the smaller bedroom.Fix the tiles in the upstairs bathroom so they no longer present a safety hazard.Replace or fix the screen doors.Fix the gap between the windows and the walls in the living room.Hire a professional company to treat the entire home for pests.
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5 February 2025 | 17 replies
The people that run these companies usually come from an "investment banking", real estate, or construction background.