I recently made a post about my favorite house hacking strategy which is to find a house that has a basement entrance or one that has some sort of side or garage entrance that opens up to the basement stairs and turn that into a basement entrance.

If you try to restrict service animals, you may open yourself up to liability.

Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

The tenant having renters insurance (that does not have a dog bite / dog breed exclusion) is your first line of defense against this situation.Having the property manager named as additional insured on the renters policy brings that layer of protection from the renters policy over to the property manager.BUT... if you as property manager do not enforce the tenant having a renters policy (without dog bite / dog breed exclusions) it opens the property owner up to a lawsuit from a dog bite as well as your property management company. 

Have your borrower sign this document upon application and then again at the closing table.Never use a 1003 Uniform Residential Loan Application.

Yes, LLC doesn't change the step-up basis when your pass away.

Target a lender that can close quick without a long underwriting period.

However, I would argue that I learned better (through personal experience) and ended up with a better business and more freedom.I recommend striking out on your own.

If I sign up for Karate lessons I'd like the dude teaching me to be a black belt.

So I have no experience with painting exteriors.  I purchased a pretty decent paint spray gun, to paint the whole inside of my house. How hard is it to paint the exterior of this home with the paint spray gun>??