What are things that you wished you had found out about prospective tenants, before approving them? Things that probably would have made you not consider them?In the next 6 months or so my roommate will be moving out ...

A few months ago my tenant e-mailed me and said "We've had 3 bats in the house in the past 2 weeks and this morning one was in our bed when we woke up." The went on to say that they got their rabies shots.5 days late...

So I was looking to purchase a 15k short sale deal and I contacted the listing agent to get more info. The house was on a lock box so she told me"make an appointment and go in and take a look around." So I did exactly...

I have a situation and wanted to get feedback on how to bring up unpaid rent and other things when Tenants are going through a lot..To be precise, I have a tenant who is having a baby, their lease has expired and need...

Hello bp community,
After closing on a SFH turnkey property with a well-known provider in Memphis, my tenants stayed for a full 2 years. I collected about $300 / month in cashflow with relatively few repairs/maintena...

Hi All- I have not dealt with an eviction for a very long time and I am dreading what's to come. The tenant is now in arrears for over $5600 and called today to shamelessly say that he is not going anywhere and won't ...

I found a motivated seller who resides in California and owns a property that was deeded to her by her parents in Little Rock, Arkansas. The price started at $24,000 and we negotiated to $14,500. I went to look at the...

I want to highlight the success story of a fellow house hacker Jeff White and I go way back with. Irina Barnett found a beautiful 3 bed/ 2 bath SFH in Aurora that she absolutely loved but the numbers did not pan out a...

I came across a house in one of my areas. The owners are old, late 80s, and they owe $5600 in property taxes. I would like to offer to pay their taxes and let them live their for free if they signed the house over to ...

I am trying to do my own screening/renting on my next rental. I have heard a lot of people say they do not look too closely at credit, but I wanted to get some opinions from others.

Do you look closely at cr...