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I have a 5 unit all brick building in Chicago. Two months ago, a tenant complained about gnats. I sprayed in the apartment and set up an indoor bug zapper. Today she reached out again saying the gnats are really bad...
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Good Afternoon BP.I am a new investor from Hillsboro OR and believe to have found a potential first buy and hold rental property. If you guys wouldn't mind, could you please look over my numbers and shoot as many hol...
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Hello BP,So I made my first deal a few months ago which is a single family I will house hack. There’s a finished basement that I will live in. I made a mistake and accepted tenants upstairs that I shouldn’t have accep...
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I have a tenant complain about a bees nest on the property . whos responsibility is it to tale care of that considering it wasn't there when we signed a lease ? thanks for any insight 👍
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My tenant told me they saw a roach (1 roach) in the house the other day. He didn't seem really upset about it, but it got me thinking...should I have a pest control company come out quarterly to spray or should that b...
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I've normally been a lurker here, but I recently closed on my first property with my brother, so maybe I'll be a little more active from here on out 🙂We bought a duplex that has tenants on each side who have lived the...
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We moved a new tenant into a 2-family home in New Jersey this past July. She recently notified us that she found a bedbug and a week later found 3 more in her mattress. We tried arguing that a bedbug is something sh...
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Help! I've been in property management for years but haven't run into this problem until now. I had an applicant whose landlord verification came back showing that she had an infestation of bedbugs and roaches. It was...
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I have a marginal tenant in a class c property who has just informed me that his single family detached house is infested with bedbugs, and it is going to take thousands of $$$ to get them eradicated. He took possessi...
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As a real estate agent and seasoned short-term rental (STR) host with over seven years of experience, I've seen the STR market evolve, especially post-2021, where competition is at an all-time high. Here are some key ...