Jonathan Cronkite
Glue down vinyl VS click/lock vinyl plank (in section 8 rental)?
What have you done?glue down or (peel and stick): PROs: 1. If there were a leak in the house, mop it up. 2. Easier to replace damaged pieces. CONs: 1. More difficult to put down. 2. Harder to replace t...
Daniel Gulyas
What's the one thing that would make everything else easier?
Hi,
I'm a software engineer from Amsterdam, I've rented a couple flats and rooms and (seemingly) landlords spend a lot of time with things that could be done more easily, like scheduling maintenance, upstream billing...
Veronica Thomas
Do you make your tenants clean before they leave?
Just curious, do you expect the tenants to clean prior to vacating the property at the end of their lease? And if they don’t, do you charge then a cleaning fee? Obviously if this is expected, it needs to be in the s...
Olufemi Olusanya
Help with selecting flooring
Need to replace the floors of a rental (removing the carpets and laminate that came with the house). Need advice on the best vinyl plank flooring for a rental. Something affordable, waterproof and scratch resistant.
Steve S.
Best way to remove odors from Indian food during turnover?
Last tenant cooked some amazing Indian food but with the spices etc the new tenant is concerned the odor may still be prevalent when they move in. Any suggestions? Will standard cleaning do the trick?
Phil B.
Interior damage caused by current tenant - Renew lease or not?
The time has come for an annual lease renewal on one of our SFH rentals. We contact the tenants and they are interested in renewing with one request. They want the interior main floor repainted. They have been in t...
Paul Enzinger
Disaster Strikes...Help with a rental property
Hello,My wife and I are small-time RE investors. We acquired this property in 2018 (2-family) and it has been pretty smooth sailing since then. This past hurricane (Ida) was a whopper and flooded the first floor, dest...
Robert D.
roofing question and estimate
do you think this roof needs complete tear off and replacement ? this is the scope of work. the dimension of the roof is roughly 45X151) Tear-off all layers of roofing and gravel down to wood decking and legally dispo...
Barry Brown
Best flooring for Airbnb
This will be my first Airbnb but not my first rental, So I'm not sure if the traffic demands on floors are different between the two? My first Airbnb will be in a 2 bedroom house built in the 40's (Completely Updated ...
Adam L.
How much to clean this shithole? (1/2 joking but also serious)
So I'm looking at a house that needs a lot of cleaning. See pics of before, after, and side by side.
I'm told the house has been vacant for a while (2 years) and its being offered for sale ~$100k. Comps show sales ar...