Hey BP! not having much luck getting responses in the forums, but I'll keep trying. I have been thinking about the worse case or "nightmare" tenant situation. This of course involving extensive amounts of purposeful d...

Hello All!  I am newer to the forums and relatively new to being a landlord.  I just purchased a home from another investor and it has a problem tenant in it.  Not destructive, dangerous, etc but chronically late and ...

Well, I just got a message from them that they want me to get the house tested for lead and asbestos, and they need those tests before they will give a deposit. Is this reasonable?? They *do* have a 10-month-old boy...

Hey there BP! Hope all has been well! I believe I'd like to start practicing on analyzing deals just so I can really get used to that part of things. How do you guys suggest I go about that? Do I just pick a listing s...

Hey All, would love to get opinions from seasoned landlords on this. I have an applicant for an apartment who looks great in every other way except for one thing...she doesn't have a history of fulltime employment.She...

At the end of a one year lease, does it make sense to offer them a lower increase if they choose to stay on month to month, and higher increase if they sign a new one year lease (since they would be "locking in" the p...

hi guys, I'm renting out my first property and we have a prospective tenant who has 780 credit score great income and seems like the kind of person I would want to rent to. The only problem is I put on my ads that's I...

Looking to help from the BP community in figuring out how much of a security deposit I should hold back. I had tenants move out of a small studio apartment I have about 3 weeks ago. When I went to get the keys the apa...

We're kicking off a new project in the next week or so and it's been pretty crazy just getting to this point. The house is a 3-story, 1550 sq ft row and it's currently 3br and 1 bath. We've owned it for almost 2 month...

A colleague and I are trying this approach to agents with short sale listings on the MLS. We are also agents. Any thoughts?

Dear John,

I'm contacting you in regards to your short sale listing. Do you currently have...