I'm developing a multi-family community from scratch, and hired a local civil engineer firm for site work (grading, erosion control, drainage plan, etc.) design. The design will be used to get city permits. It is expe...

Hopefully, this post can serve as a helpful cautionary tale to anyone considering a tenant who appeared to be OK at the outset, and one the landlord did their due diligence on, but ultimately has become a pain in the ...

Truth be told I stumbled upon this because i'm about to get an appraisal to drop the MI on a second home I purchased a few years ago that I have been Airbnb-ing since day one. 
While it used to be unspoken, The Fanni...

I AM NOT ASKING FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL! Lol.I used to know someone whose dad owned a real estate investment firm that had 5.5 billion of assets.They told me that there is a lot of money laundering th...

I have a tenant that moved into this single family home last October, the first few months he was on time when I pick up the rents.  But the past four months, including this month, he had been late as much as a week. ...

Recently purchased a fully-rented four unit apartment building. Each unit has a storage room in the basement for tenant use. Last week I discovered one storage room being used as a bedroom by a friend of the tenant. I...

How does everyone go about this. The property management company repairs a problem in a rental that the tenant caused (say broken window) and then sends you the invoice for repairs. Do you pay the invoice and wait for...

We have a couple units in a 30 unit building in the peninsula (east Palo Alto) and need to find new HOA management firm for our building.
We had a really bad experience with the last company.
Any leads or ideas?

Hello folks,When running BGC and other reports on potential tenants and having applicants pay for them, do you run them for all? Let's say it's a family of 4, do you make them all pay for the aprox $40-$50 screening p...

First situation: Apartment was advertised at $1400 for a 2 bed/1 bath house. Prospective tenants had 2 pets and we agreed to increase rent to $1430 (15/pet). Lease was written up with the 2 pets allowed and the rent s...