I've Been renting all four rooms in my house out individually for about 10 months now. Usually no issues. Tenants have come mostly by word of mouth through some local tradesman. Recently I've had 2 guests that were me...

Hi all,I have a situation where a tenant of 3 months has not paid his November rent.  Our property manager has called, emailed, and shown up at the door trying to hunt him down to get an answer but got no response. A ...

We have all been thinking about and living the Corona Virus. I suspect that most of the BP community is in the same state of mind as me which is, doing everything I can to work it out in my head but obvious and defini...

How many days do I have to give a tenant to leave for stealing power? She has paid her rents,  but I just found out she's been stealing power since May. I got a call from police and city inspectors about it. Now the p...

Economic Update
(Monday, May 10, 2021)
Are you making love less? I thought so. Apparently you’re not alone. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of babies born in the U.S. dropped by ...

This was an interesting one. The heat at one of my units has been wonky -- its steam radiator heat with the old-school upright radiators, and some were giving off great heat and some were not. This particular unit has...

I have one tenant who's been here a long time, before I started not officially including internet. Now I say "I sometimes share mine with people as a courtesy, but it's not included-- if the person makes my internet ...

Economic Update
(Yom Kippur Edition)
The second quarter of 2020 (April, May & June) was the mother of all economic contractions. Real GDP shrank at a 31.7% annual rate, the largest drop for any quarter since ...