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Luke Carl Why Bad Reviews are a Good Thing in Short Term Rental
12 January 2021 | 27 replies

Yeah, I said it. And yes it's because I just got one. 
     First of all -I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not encouraging you to allow bad reviews. Anything short of a glowing 5-star review that quite fra...

Peter Ryabikin Do you stage your flips?
24 January 2017 | 9 replies

Curious to what everyone else is doing? We stage all of our houses. We did close to 30 flips last year and plan on 50 this year. We stage houses as low as 230k to over a million. I know a lot of people don't do it but...

Patricia Franciulli Bad Section 8 Tenant
22 August 2013 | 13 replies

How about Section 8? The government pays her rent in full but she cannot keep up with her utilities bills. Like water is already shut off and trash is putting a lien on my property. I did an inspection and found...

Andy Kessler 2 Bedroom or 3 Besroom Cabin
31 October 2020 | 11 replies

So I have a 2 BR Pool Cabin in Pigeon Forge that has done very well since I bought it a year ago. It has 2 king beds with private baths and then we use two sleeper sofas to get to sleeping 8. I’m in the process of bui...

Amy Rankin Does number of bathrooms matter vs heads in beds?
16 August 2022 | 14 replies

How much is ADR and occupancy rate affected by number of bathrooms? I am looking at a 2bd/2ba house and a 2bd/1ba house for STR. If both sleep same people but one has 1 bath, will it affect bookings? $200k lower purch...

Frank McGovern Chicago offers free legal eviction rep to low-income renters
6 April 2022 | 7 replies

The Chicago Department of Housing on Monday chose two nonprofits to provide free legal help to low-income tenants “at risk of or subject to eviction or lock-out” in Chicago.https://chicago.suntimes.com/c...

Codey Fabian New Member in Central Maine
9 February 2021 | 16 replies

Hey everyone,I am new to BiggerPockets and also new into real estate investing. I live in Maine and me and a coworker recently started our own handyman business in the Central Maine area. We wanted to post on the foru...

Sarah Lorenz Critique of My Recent Stay at a Vacation Rental
1 September 2019 | 24 replies

I booked a rental at a Northern Michigan lake house recently, and now that I'm an expert, I naturally had much to critique. This was a 5 bed, 3 bath house right on the water, and more of a house-hacking STR vs. a prof...

John Underwood VRBO checkout instructions
12 April 2018 | 12 replies

Curious to know what everyone else uses for checkout instructions.Getting ready to make some minor updates to my rental agreement that renters electronically sign/agree to when the rent on HA/VRBO.I can't find a way t...

Matt J. Creating an Air BnB Plan
27 July 2020 | 33 replies

Hey everyone. We currently have 3 long term rentals that have done pretty well for us and for our next purchase, I want to dive into a short term vacation rental. This will be located too far away from me for me to ha...