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Zac Boelkow Help with tenant screening
13 January 2020 | 19 replies
If you focus on looking for the "good" you will tend to rationalize and marginalize the "bad" and convince yourself to rent to them even though its not smart to do so.Decide on your criteria and stick with it.
Account Closed How to finance a turnkey buy & hold rental?
28 November 2020 | 12 replies
Account ClosedI am confused on the rational of using conventional financing will cause you to burn though all of your money on a single investment.
Joe Splitrock What Do People Get Wrong Most Often
27 March 2020 | 60 replies
There's acceptance and bargaining and rationalization (not necessarily in that order, Kubler-Ross and the "five stages of grief" linear model is more an artifact of pop psychology than useful cognitive-behavioral therapy).
Mike K. Tenant Passing Away w/ 13 months left in a 2 year lease
22 July 2017 | 22 replies
While the rational was to take the emotions out of the equation and I can respect that, my gut was telling me exactly what everyone above basically posted.  
Russell Brazil Be Careful If You Are Overleveraged
20 March 2020 | 140 replies
Unfortunately there has been too much rationalization of poor decisions with statements like, "everyone needs a place to live".
Jay Hinrichs Landlords will you give tenants affected by virus a break on rent
21 March 2020 | 108 replies
and they were not giving out samples and they closed the food court.. so just there probably 10 to 15 people did not need to show up for work and lost wages. there was no TP or paper towels and water was being rationed at 2 cases each. 
Ricardo P. Stay at Home orders extended through May 15
13 April 2020 | 69 replies
My rational thought is that they cannot extend the eviction protections much more without some sort of compensation to the landlords.
Maya Torres Landlord refuses to do work!
27 March 2020 | 59 replies
I’m not concerned at all because technically..I’m just the middle man.
Alan M. Selling building, tenant breaks lease, can I keep safety deposit?
30 March 2020 | 8 replies
If there is a way to get him to move rationally without getting courts involved then that would be best. 
Timothy W Hanson Putting vending machines / soda machines at your MobileHome Park
25 April 2020 | 1 reply
I would not ever put in coin operated anything in any property I owned, because there will regularly be phone calls to me (or a manager) related to those items.Whenever a phone call is made to you or a manager - even if this is related to a company who is supposed to provide the service ( a soda machine company, a coin-op laundry company), this still results in a cost to you, because you are the middle-man.