I stumbled upon Bigger Pockets one day while cruising the web for credible advice for newbies!

Setting aside the security/liability issues, you can now put on Smartkey, which makes re-keying even easier.

For those looking to learn more about our new securities environment this is an excellent read:For those looking to learn more about our new securities environment this is an excellent read:The article does a great job of talking through the constraints for issuers and the problems with the current legislation from a state securities standpoint.

If you're talking about a hard money lender (who may prefer to be called private money lender), they will lend the money into the LLC once the deal has been reviewed and approved, taking a security interest in the property (mortgage or deed of trust), and most likely a personal guarantee from at least one partner in the LLC.if you're talking about actually taking on an investor partner in a deal, then they would be a member of the LLC and how the money comes into the partnership would be negotiated up front and dealt with in the partnership agreement.

We do have the regular security deposit (average $1,300) which we feel can cover any problems we may have.

I'm an hour north in Longview.Don't trust Web site rental comps.

This is the time to gather your lease and evidence of recent payments and evidence of a security deposit, if any.

I live in Colorado, Colorado Springs and would like to sit down with someone rather than REI web tools.I hear great things on Fortune Builders if you have any input on REI of Fortune Builders please let me know.

I would definitely take this out of the tenant's security deposit, since it's his arrest that ultimately caused the damage.

These are Observations only.I did visit their web site.