This can help with limiting the time your unit sits vacant.These situations can get tricky, but I always recommend staying level headed during your interactions with the tenant.The worst case scenario is the tenant ends up unhappy that you don't want them to break the lease early and/or they don't want to pay for an early lease break (hopefully defined in your lease agreement with them) and ends up damaging your property, costing more, prior to their actual move out date.

Increasingly I have been given fake past landlords that can’t answer that simple question.It sounds daunting, but it’s really not that big of a deal once you wrap your head around it.

@Heidi Fahringer wasted time doing several calls and then a meeting with a CPA and then got shocked with their proposed fee.After even more wasted time trying to find out from them why the fee was 10x what I had been paying - a lightbulb in my head finally lit up and I asked the revealing question and found they had a minimum charge.Obviously, we were not a fit.

I was the first developer on a street back in 2016 and anytime I was out there the neighbors would be on their porch shaking their heads in anger. 

There's a high chance that you are feeling FOMO from the returns in public markets, sell your houses for a loss, pile into stocks, and then see mediocre performance while real estate heads back higher again.I see this, and similar actions, play out over and over.Personally, I'd stick with the real estate rather than selling it.

Maybe if you really like these guys and their work...and feel that they honestly got in over their heads, you could throw them an extra $500 just to appear 'nice'.

If you're going to make it in this business you're going to have to wrap your head around the fact that things like that are going to happen and you've got nobody to blame other than the criminals themselves.Her complaint is that the PM did not notice the stove missing during the inspection; the owner was the one that noticed it missing.

Just trying to wrap my head around the differences of if we got a standard mortgage up front vs. private equity and then paying that off by getting a conventional mortgage after seasoning. 

Here in College Station, TX I'd say its no big deal just cross your T's dot your I's, and head on down to the local justice of the peace. 

Thanks for the heads-up.