Curt Powell
Building a rental portfolio: Start small?
Hello everyone, I'm new to posting on here although I have cruised around the website s lot. For the lest year or so, I have gotten the itch to buy and hold rental properties for present and future cash flows. I live...
Henry M.
Most Important Aspect of Self Storage
When hiring a management company or a manager, it is probably the single most important aspect of any business, especially in Self Storage.
Some owners are just glad to have a warm body hold down the office.
In th...
Charles D.
Property management charged me and didn't do the maintenance
Need some serious help from anyone here. My property management charged me about $7000 for maintenance. Then took my 2 months rents of $2200 apply to maintenance that I did not know about until 2 months latter that I ...
Rachel Wayne
Landlord Tneant- Eviction proceedings
Hi fellow members, I have a tenant who started his lease about a month ago, and paid rent, security deposit and pet fee with checks that bounced. On top of that is making requests for cosmetic repairs. I had filed ...
Katrina P.
Inspectors refusing to inspect bldg -- bldg has bad rep?!
Hi everyone, need some input. I am considering a small multifamily that apparently had a bad bed bug problem in 2012, at which time, the current owner vacated the building and spent $7k heat treating. Since then, he h...
Scott French
Flooring
Have some flooring replacement to do in a multifamily building. What types of flooring do you all like to put in in different areas? Note: this property is in the Northeast, so keep that in mind.
Common Areas
Kitche...
Brandon Turner
Lesson Learned: Make Sure Your Google Voice Number is Working... ;)
Just a funny story. About a month ago I set up my lead gen site using the Wix tutorial I made here on BiggerPockets, and included a phone number for a Google Voice number. But I forgot to actually forward the Goo...
Mike Adams
Bathroom door coming off the hinge
Tenant just notified us that the door in the bathroom is coming off the hinge on the second on third hinges. The 1st one apparently is already off. We have in our lease, tenant must maintain all appliances, equipmen...
Justin Knighten
Cost to maintain and operate hot tub
We're getting ready to open our first STR that is a cabin in the mountains by the river. It has a hot tub on site, but it's currently drained. It sits on a little patio in the yard, not under a roof. This time of y...
Kenneth Hong
College Town Rentals - Tips and Tricks
Hello Everyone,I am currently the owner of two single family rental homes in the college town of Davis, California, few miles east of the San Francisco Bay Area. I have managed every aspect of the rentals from findin...