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I just purchased my very first home in March. It’s a two-family and I fixed up the downstairs and moved in this April. Upstairs tenant has been there for 4years with various sketchy roommates. He has refused to prov...
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I just filed my taxes for 2018, and had to pay in a significant amount of money. This got me exploring some of the details of my situation and trying to figure out some of the math and the logic for certain things. I...
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I am renting a house to a tenant that keeps making improvements to the house. He put in a backsplash in the kitchen, put up larger fence doors, light fixtures and fans, etc. I keep telling him to stop and he says don...
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I got the results back from a tenant background check. She is 28. Credit is perfect, but she's got four criminal results. 2 are from 6 years ago (marijuana/traffic), 1 is four years ago for $1,000 of property destr...
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I wanted to share with you a situation that recently came up with one of our rentals regarding service dogs. Please note we are located in Pennsylvania, though this issue is at a federal level. The Situation: Our ...
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In many of the BP podcasts, articles, and blogs, the idea comes up frequently that people who really have major issues during donwturns or in RE investing in general are people who buy wrong (pretty clear I think), or...