Ryan Phillips
Security Deposit, the age old quesion of how much to deduct.
My tenants lived in the home for just 11 months. (Thank God) While preparing for us to move back in as the primary residents, we scheduled to have the floors of the entire home redone with wood. So we told them not ...
Graham Nash
This is what my $23K seller financed SFR looks like after rehab.
I just completed the rehab on a 3/1.5 SFR that I purchased through seller financing. purchase price $23K10% down, 12 payments- based on a 5% interest rate, and amortized over 20 years. A balloon at the end of the 12...
Kathy Benavidez
Tenant Responsibility or Wear & Tear?
We had tenants move in a few months ago.
Yesterday they sent the following picture claiming that that was there since they moved in. (During the last walk through with previous tenants, that was not there at all)....
Frances L.
Ceramic Floor Problem
According to my observation, for whatever reasons, the mortar between tiles was not used the right mixture installed …. in between the tiles, there is some mortar and sand above the connection between the tiles.
It ca...
Chris Stromdahl
Carpeting in a rental?
I am trying to stay away from buying properties with carpeting.Does that make sense?I will take it into account if the deal is good, but my mind set is that carpet will cost me money every time the unit is turned over...
Mark Forest
Carpet; keep it or pull it?
We bought a used carpet cleaner and my wife spends a lot of time going over and over the carpets that are already in the rental house we bought. She eventually gets them looking pretty clean except for the most recen...
Jennifer Hillberg
Best way to rehab a wood floor on a rental-to-be
Hi -- I'm working on a house that will be in a lower-income rental area. I pulled up the carpets (which had 30 years of dirt and dust under them) and found good hardwood floors. There are many imperfections due to t...
Ethan Martin
High Maintenance tenant
Need some advice. I have a tenant who moved in last week. We did a walk through with a checklist and she kept saying how everything was great. House is new construction, less than a year old, and she wants me to take ...
Sean Wilkinson
I have a great little airbnb.... Only thing is :-(
It smells like smoke....
It was previously an apartment with animals and and a smoker. We did a pretty major rehab on the place pulling up all flooring, doing an a.chemical wash on the wall. Tried doing a kills prime...
Howard Summers
Flooring Replacement
In August of 2015 I bought my first investment property and I have had two roomates living me and paying me rent. I am about to buy my second property and I have three tenants lined up. For the first property though...