Luke Carl
It's not your cleaner, it's you.
Often times people contact me. Luke, my cleaner is not doing their job I need a new one, can you suggest one? If you're having issues with your cleaner, look at yourself before you look at them. This particular person...
Victoria Winters
Pets? What is the big deal? Are we missing opportunities with pet restrictions?
It seems that everyone has an opinion about whether to rent to people with pets. How effective is it to require additional monthly rent for a pet? Can anyone tell me if charging a pet deposit or additional monthly ...
Alexandra Hughes Pailet
Tenant is Anti-Glyphosate (Round Up) - Realistic Request?
I recently contracted a landscaping company to do a complete overhaul at my rental. Today, the tenant contacts me unhappy that they were using Round-Up as it contains glyphosate. Trying to reassure her, I sent her lin...
Scott K.
How to organize/keep track of multiple Handymen
With 3 STR's I'm trying to start organizing and automating processes for myself. It's become a chore to organize my different handymen who all have different schedules, and I have to not only remind them of every sing...
Wade G.
Make sure you have a very large reserve fund for landlording?
Well its been a rough year as a landlord for me so far. Even worse than the year Hurricane Ike caused its damage. To date since January first of this year I have spent an average of $1475 a month for repairs and vac...
Tim Kersting
Necessary repairs vs unnecessary tenant requests
So the quick version of this is:My mom moved from the area (sf bay area to so-cal) and kept her house here. I am the "property manager" for the time being.We did as much as we could to get the place rent ready in the ...
Michael Healy
What if you're not handy???
So, something has always bugged me a little bit reading these forums and blog posts. If someone is self managing a few MFH, why does everyone seem to feel they have to run over at 3am to deal with a clogged toilet? W...
Jason Rodriguez
Still haven't closed on a prop & frustrated
I love this website and all the information it contains, but now being on it everyday and soaking up all this different knowledge has become overwhelming and frustrating, especially when you just want to close on that...
Diana Dorantes
‘What’s in your garage’?
My husband and I recently met a couple who were rehabbing a rental and noticed that they were driving a very nice luxurious SUV, now we learned they have had rentals for 40 years and were ready to begin to sell off s...
Melanie Stephens
Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned: Short-Term Rentals
Hey everyone!
My name is Melanie Stephens and I write the “Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned” column for BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine.
I am looking for BP Member stories for an upcoming column on Biggest Mistakes ma...