I have 3 young lads who are renting one of my apartments (a 2 unit multifamily) I will use names as Mr A, Mr B and Mr C. Mr A  is signatory to the lease but on the lease is states that MR B and Mr C will also be livin...

I’m trying to standardize my smoke detectors across all units. I’m looking for for a unicorn smoke detector that meets the following requirements:
1) combination Smoke and CO
2) can be installed hardwired or with a ...

Dear Fellow BP Community, I'm a new landlord and recently served one of my inherited tenants a 30 day vacate notice as I'm doing substantial improvements to the apartment. She just left the property on Sunday and I di...

The Fed might be shut down, but the local beaurocrats keep coming up with new laws:

As of January 1, 2014, owners are required to ensure that all residential rental units have operable smoke alarms installed...

Simple question, who is responsible for the upkeep of the batteries of smoke alarms? Tenants, or property manager? And to what degree?If I hear a tenant's smoke alarm low battery beeping, and give them the batteries f...

We are implementing a no smoking policy on a four unit we purchased last month.   Anyone have any experience in implementing this kind of policy and enforcing it.   As leases expire we are adding the no smoking policy...

Our offer was accepted on a nice duplex today! The tenants upstairs would like to stay, and have excellent payment history. They keep their unit spotless and have nice furniture. We want to keep them, and I saw no evi...

So I know how to add a no smoking clause to a lease however I have learned over the years that if its not in writing, you cant enforce it & my last tenants had firearms and were doing illegal drugs on the premises...

Hello everyone! I wanted to get the communities input on this and see if you guyz are going through the same thing.

I've been getting a flood of sellers, lately who seem to be stuck in a time warp and the year is ...

While looking for duplexes in Wisconsin, some have no garage, but are otherwise desirable rentals. I know when I think back to my years as a young renter in Wisconsin, my dream was to have garage access. I would have ...