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5 September 2021 | 73 replies
If they then further claim you made your decision to deny housing based on them belonging to a protected class, it could become a Fair Housing complaint.So another easy way to mitigate this going forward is to have clear and concise tenant screening requirements that you publish and share with prospective tenants (we even make applicants acknowledge them as part of our rental application), and then follow them pretty rigorously.
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14 June 2019 | 3 replies
It's those maniacs that buy homes cash via quit claim deed off of craigslist that really get screwed.Make sure your property manager is a licensed real estate brokerage.Understand you can not eliminate all risk, only mitigate it.
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1 November 2017 | 24 replies
There are extremely easy ways to mitigate risk and appease personal preferences and comforts and find a property that matches whatever that is, so I don't think it's necessary to not have a more focused plan.
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9 November 2017 | 6 replies
If you're not getting the same rent, the renter in the nicer half is likely going to be resentful that their rent is higher (they know their place is nicer, but that doesn't mitigate the "I'm getting screwed on price" visceral reaction.
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5 January 2018 | 19 replies
Instead it must be replaced with what's practical & how to be move forward while mitigating as many losses as possible.You try to get them to pay & they refuse.
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28 June 2020 | 23 replies
Additionally, I would look into if there’s ways to mitigate Noise in the future, lest you are going to limit tenant pool to people with no kids.
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6 July 2018 | 7 replies
They are only for disabled people and must perform a specific task that mitigates that disability.
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22 February 2019 | 17 replies
The time for that stuff is BEFORE you move them in so you can mitigate the risk of running into a situation where your tenants can't or don't pay the rent.
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10 March 2019 | 2 replies
(I am a fairly conservative investor) so this plan would also help you mitigate some of your downside risk if one of the moving parts implodes the whole deal.
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2 December 2019 | 6 replies
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so your job is going to be to mitigate risks.Is the value of your property right?