Hi,I need some help trying to figure out what to do. I sold a property on May 30th and am holding a first mortgage for the buyer. The buyers attorney did a Title search at the local town offices on May 9th and was tol...

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...

Any advice would help:I have a property that had a sump pump break and water come into the finished basement of a SFH. The tenants emailed and called a couple days after the rain storm. I dispatched my handyman to ass...

When a property is sold with tenants, their security deposit is ordinarily transferred to the new owner. What happens if the tenants are behind in rent? Can the old landlord deduct it from the security deposit or do t...

I made the leap and invested in my first property in October of this year.  My plan is to live in this home for a year, to satisfy mortgage requirements, then rent it out.  I still own my previous home that I am plan...

I am really only writing this because more and more frequently I have seen this come up. And it practically grinds a nail in my nerves to reward tenants for bad behavior by offering them cash to leave. It undermines l...

Hi all ,

Would you take someone from Marijuana conviction from 7 years ago as tenant ?

When they say Marijuana conviction means he smoke marijuana or could mean he was selling it?

Is easy to get rid of marijuana sm...

I purchased a run-down rooming house that had questionable tenants in it. After all the tenants left either by eviction or on their own I renovated the house into very nice apartments.  After a fairly anal screening p...

Hi, Steve here. I am very new and right now in the obvious learning phase. I really want a local mentor here in Grand Rapids Mi. I have sent out emails offering to clean vacancies, answer phones, run errands,  take ph...