Tyler Bettencourt
former PMC still owes my $$$
Any advice on how I can collect $$$ from my property management company? I'm in California PMC is in Illinois. I thought about small claims court but the total amount owed to me is $990. By the time I fly out etc. it ...
Adolfo Cuellar
Cutting Corners = Black Hole
Why hire professional landscapers when you can just do it yourself?We were two weekends deep into raking, macheteing and whacking the seller's HUGE backyard. With only about a week left till the house was set to hit t...
Mark Forest
Charging for your time after tenant leaves
After tenants leave and you find damage you will of course send them an itemized list of the cost of materials to fix the damage to explain why they are not getting any or all of their security deposit back. How do y...
Joey Budka
Where have all the LEADERS gone?
It seems in this day and age, I constantly find myself looking to men of the past for guidance and advice: Warren Buffet, Abraham Lincoln, Dale Carnegie, Earl Nightingale, Thomas Jefferson, just to name a few. I do no...
Ryan Sommer
Opinions on investment properties in Big Bear for air bnb?
I see a lot of small 1 bed cabins on the market in Big Bear for around $100k. My only real estate experience so far is a condo I bought a couple of years ago in LA area that is my primary residence and I have no expe...
Jennifer Rysdam
How do you convince a cat lady that her apartment stinks horribly
I just bought this building last month. My twenty something year old tenant had 2 unapproved cats and her apartment smelled horrible. I sent her a letter to get rid of the cats. She decided to give her notice and move...
Elliott Wolf
Pre Qualified vs. Pre-Approved
Another newbie question...So I read this article ... https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/pre-approval-vs-pre-qualifyingI understand that pre-approval is key to make sure you secure the house you really want if it comes...
J. Lancaster
Need advice on how best to use HML's to vet my wholesales deals so that I can offer them with "Financing In Place" to My Buyer's
I am NOT Looking for HML's in this thread. I already posted that to the Marketplace. But I would like any advice on how best to work with a HML to get them to analyze my deals so that they'd already be familar wit...
Charles Gaucher
Property management issues.
So last November (2019) I hired a property management company. tenants were moving out December 31rst. By March of 2020 it still wasn't rented. So I cancelled. we had no signed contract. Just a verbal agreement that s...
Marc Dufour
Strategies for landlord open house
Are there some articles you would recommend to market/run an open house to find tenants?