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Darius Howell Bought my first rental property
10 April 2019 | 10 replies

Hi everyone, I closed on my first rental property today. Looking forward to building my portfolio but right now I wanted to know is there anything I need to know about how to screen prospect tenants. Any advice would ...

Alec Jacobs How to protect yourself when househacking, specifically rent by the room..
11 November 2023 | 5 replies

Hello everyone,I was wondering if you guys have any info/experience about living with tenants and how to screen them among other things.I heard about initially having a short lease to kind of feel out tenants (specifi...

John Thedford SHTF: "We Buy Houses" Guy Sues When Seller Defaults
2 September 2019 | 44 replies

The title is short but may not reflect the entire transaction.Seller was approached by "buyers". After believing all the "buyers" representations were not true, seller defaulted on a contract which he signed. "Buyer" ...

Michael Temple Criminal Records and Landlording
21 March 2018 | 18 replies

I was reading this article on the site...https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/advanced-...It says that a new HUD ruling says landlords can't have a blanket discrimination policy against people with a criminal reco...

Timothy Murphy III New Ohio Foreclosure Bill
31 May 2016 | 0 replies

Forwarded to me recently by a colleague, from the Ohio State Bar Association's listserv. Apparently the Ohio foreclosure process is about to change. The devil's always in the details and implementation but it sounds l...

Jehan Jaleel Two quick newbie questions on the income 3x more than rent rule
3 July 2017 | 5 replies

Part of the tenant screening process is their income must be more than three times the rent. But is this their pre tax income or post tax? Also if a tenant does not have this, would you reject them right away or is th...

Stone Teran Need eviction advice (damage to building, etc)
27 May 2015 | 3 replies

I have a tenant who has been there over a year and has become addicted to heroine and is causing a lot of problems.  I want to evict him ASAP.  This is what he has done:1. A female prostitute lives with him and makes ...

Account Closed David Hughes, Genie Investments, & Zoomeral SCAM
16 February 2024 | 9 replies

DO NOT trust David Hughes! Genie Investments and Zoomeral is a SCAM! He has scammed me over $80K and has millions of scammed money he moved overseas. REPORT him immediately! We WILL get him!

Tom Case Collecting Rent Electronically
17 October 2017 | 23 replies

Does someone have a suggestion for a safe, easy and tested app or method to collect rent electronically?

Brig Murdock Biggest Headaches of Investors
16 March 2019 | 14 replies

What are some of the BIGGEST headaches that you as real estate investors with rental properties deal with?