Chris Vail
First Rehab to Rent Property
Hello BP,I am going to do this thread as a thank you to all the help I have recieved from others on this site, and I am hoping it will help others to see me go through this process.Intitial closing and lessons learned...
Sandy G.
Non-paying Holdover Tenants
We have tenants that signed a renewal notice back in October agreeing to a rent increase and continue their tenancy. Current rental agreement was set to terminate on November 30. New rental agreement was prepared an...
Mark Berge
Cleaning up the leaves on the property
Hi All, any suggestions on how to get the tenant who pays on time and takes care of the inside of the property to clean up the leaves on the property? Last year he did it as well as using his snow blower to clean up t...
James Defazio
Need some contractor advice!
hired a contractor to remodel two bathrooms in our rental. Bid came out to $4600 for everything so we signed a detailed sow contract and he got to work. I told him I had to have it done by Feb 1st because I had tenant...
Carlos Garcia
Section 8 - no rent payments
Hello,We are new to RE investment and this summer we bought our first investment property in North Carolina (we live in WA). We got this via Roofstock and the house already had a Section 8 tenant.We closed in July and...
Christina Haws
Handyman wants to rent my house before the rehab is complete
Hello! We have a contractor that we hired to rehab/remodel a house for a rental. We had a contract with the contractor that said the remodel needed to be done in 8 weeks with an option to go out 10 weeks if needed. ...
Bob E.
I Hate Dirt Bag Tenants: Scam Alert This Happened to a Friend of Ours
I wanted to alert the BP community to something that is going on in Arizona and is a scam by tenants looking to break their lease.Our friend rented a house to someone that was a little odd and a bit of a allergy freak...
Frank Yaccarino
can money be borrowed from retirement funds
Can or is it advisable to borrow from a retirement account to do a deal? If yes, to whom is the interest payed to? would it be to my retirement account? I need capitol to finance my first deal. Is it possible to do ...
John Romero
THROWING a tenant out...
So one of the biggest fears of any landlord is a non paying, non LEAVING tenant. In NJ, i'm finding out we have some incredibly strict eviction laws. It's tough to evict someone, a lot of legal issues involved, and ...
Richard Forbes
Finding and funding my first deal
People over and over as a investor ask how you find your first deal and how you manage to get your investment funded? And what are the steps on closing the deal. - For looking for deals below: 1. Do you drive around ?...