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29 July 2016 | 12 replies
Thanks for the advice @Sam Shueh- I work in healthcare so I'm no stranger to bad treatment and terrible pay.
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17 August 2022 | 33 replies
So it’s ok for a perspective tenant to expect a landlord/home owner, tonallow a stranger into their house but not ok for a home owner to ask who they are letting inHmmm I think I will risk losing the people who are afraid of being scammed instead of risking bodily harm or allowing someone to case my home so they can come back later and steal the appliances
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9 March 2018 | 66 replies
In essence you are giving up control of your property to strangers that you know nothing about for 3 full long years.
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28 May 2016 | 39 replies
Your story has just got to be an elaborate hoax of some kind.A real estate investor from Italy, buying Section 8 property, unknowingly, in Atlanta, Georgia, flying in and signing contracts with strangers, not having a clue about any of the contracts involved, or if taxes were paid or how to pay taxes, and not taking the time to learn all of that before buying it anyway, putting it all in the hands of a stranger, and having things notarized and not knowing what it was, and then flying back to Italy, and then posting tomes on the internet, instead of talking to her lawyer.I'm just not buying it.
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6 May 2016 | 2 replies
You would probably be better off renting to three strangers.
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6 September 2017 | 30 replies
Then if one roommate chooses to leave, that's not your problem -- it's theirs.If you choose roommates and rent rooms to strangers, you could have all sorts of issues.
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21 October 2015 | 21 replies
Here is the only piece of legal advice you should take from an anonymous stranger on the internet: Talk to a lawyer.My prediction is that if you do talk to a lawyer about your practice here, he will respond with words to the effect of, "Are you nuts?!?!"
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11 November 2020 | 24 replies
I cannot say i am an experienced landlord, but it seems renting the property to someone close to me knows, seems a better situation than renting to a random stranger.
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13 April 2016 | 23 replies
If the offender was a complete stranger, then there is zero chance that person was a guest.
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6 September 2015 | 103 replies
The only legal advice you should take from any anonymous stranger on the internet is, "Call your lawyer."