I just rented my first rental home 3 days ago. They found a rat in the house and freaked out bad. What do I have to do as a landlord?  Like legally? I obviously don't want a rat in there. The tenants are acting its th...

Hi BP,This question goes out to all the Texas mortgage brokers and bankers out there.  I have a duplex in Austin Texas that I would like to leverage for the purchase of another property.  I lived in the duplex for one...

So I bought a house cash and intent to flip it. It's a mess. The seller told me there is a rent paying tenant who has been in place for 22 years.  Seller has no lease on file. He says the tenant owns several propertie...

What do you do and say when you run into property owners, while scoping out their property with a tax lien? Has anyone ever experienced a hostile situation? Anyone had their lien redeemed very quickly after loitering ...

We have a tenant who is running an unlicensed daycare. Do we incur any liability? There is no exclusion in our rental agreement.

Hi BP!Long-time lurker, first time poster. After listening to podcasts and viewing forums, I wanted to try to house-hack the home that I own and currently live in.My question is, am I allowed to choose a tenant who I ...

Hi Everyone,I'm curious to get feedback from other investors who have had to deal with evictions of someone you did not put in the house to begin with.  I have a flip I'm looking at that currently has a tenant in ther...

Hi Everybody,I own a condo in North Jersey in a high rise and had a good tenant there for a year. Her lease was due for renewal in October and I asked her if she wanted to renew for another year. She said yes and we r...

I am an insurance agent in Alabama and have recently been introduced to REI by a client.  I insure about 60 single family dwellings for a guy in town and have been picking his brain each time I've met with him over th...

Hi BP...In the news recently, the new administration is trying to re-write the Dodd Frank bill.  Forgive my ignorance, but what did the bill do that harmed the REI community?  How will the re-write benefit us?________...