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I know families are a protected class so you can't discriminate against a family and not rent to them because they have kids.
Let's say you had two families that were identical in every way except the age of ...
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In Podcast # 109, Scott talked about the limitation of insurance policies. Basically, from what I understood, the interest of your insurance company does not necessarily align with the landlord's. So when a claim is f...
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Years ago another landlord told me he kept one of those stand up infrared room heaters around to keep a tenant happy until his furnace guy could get there to fix the problem if a furnace went out.Last night, while all...
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My wife is going to start doing our books. She has bought Quickbook Destop 2016 for a Mac computer. Each time we talk to the quickbook support team, they are pushing us to buy the online version. Who uses Quickbooks d...
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Fellow NEPA Investors, I currently have a 3 - unit multi family in Dunmore, PA. I have owned it since June 2018 and all of my leases are ending March 31st of this year. My leases / tenants were inherited...some inf...
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Hi, I have one property in Florida managed currently by a management company. Our tenants' dog damaged the window screens. The company is saying that we can't take the screen repair out of the deposit since we didn'...
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I had a new water heater installed in the rental (before I placed the rental in service, if that matters). Do I have to depreciate the water heater like I would a kitchen appliance, or is it okay to treat it as a repa...
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Hello All,Was searching online but haven't seen a recent thread/post in a while on this and since these services change often would love to hear what you use when screening tenants. Ideal features:
Credit report (pre...
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Make a bunch of money doing a flip! OK ok ok, easier said than done right?Well let me try to help. You will need some money. The best way to get money is by doing a flip! So only for that reason, will I share how to...
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I have seen some older houses where some of the outlets have been replaced with 3 hole outlets although the line going to them do not have a ground wire.
Is the only good solution to this problem replacement of the...