I had a home in Lake County Ohio for rent Fair Housing sent a tester who said they had a service animal. They said I told the tester there would be a security deposit for the animal. Fair housing  filed a charge of di...

Hi I'm looking into buying 11 (a 6 unit and a 5)  units in the Hazelton pa area. The one big set back on this deal is the fact that the heat and water are all together and paid for by landlord equaling about 24,000 a ...

Hi all,
I'm a new small-time landlord figuring out my process for screening tenants for an apartment in Chicago. It seems like most all popular screening services like Mysmartmove, Rentspree, etc use the Transunion "...

Hi, I wasn't sure the best forum section for this, mods feel free to move it.So currently my partner and I are self managing our rentals and we have a handyman that works for us.  My partner and the handyman are inter...

Stumbled on this service, which appears to be an interesting business model in itself and got me thinking about how this might work for convenience items such as toothbrushes, deodorants, or other items that are not n...

I have a possible tenant that tells me they don't have to pay the pet deposit because their pit bull is a service animal and I legally cannot charge them a pet deposit. Advise please.

I was doing work on my rental property over the weekend, and the gate was mistakenly left open and my tenants service dog ran away today. The tenant told me:
"He has been found. He killed someone's chicken and we may...

I am about to complete the construction of a new ADU in southern California.  As part of the lease, we are providing all utilities for the unit. I two questions to help work through:1) Do we provide internet service b...

So, I was doing some research after reading the most recent thread on this topic, and I'm wondering if this is accurate.  Based on my new understanding, a tenant claiming to have a service animal can only be asked two...

So, I've found a tenant that I like and want to screen them for Credit, background check, etc. What/who is everyone using for these reports. I've looked at Smartmove, but it seems that the potential tenant has to re...