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Hi fellow members, I have a tenant who started his lease about a month ago, and paid rent, security deposit and pet fee with checks that bounced. On top of that is making requests for cosmetic repairs. I had filed ...
It seems that the 2020 stimulus package doesn't directly help small time landlords with SFR. Only indirectly to folks who lost their jobs or businesses with large multi-family rentals. I can't find any information o...
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I will be converting my current home into a rent house as of 6/1 due to moving out of state. When I called my agent they said the current company no longer wanted to insure my home due to the fact that I am renting it...
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OK, so, I've got that off my chest.
Here are my gripes, from a tenant's perspective:
All of my rental properties are in Georgia, where I don't want to live. So, whenever I end up in California, I ren...
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Ok, so I want to offer to buy from tired landlords. First off, I've heard advice to offer to least option from them. Is this the best strategy or should I simply ask if they are interested in selling and make a term...
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I think it would be more difficult for me to come up with good tenant stories, the horror stories come easy.
1. One of my tenants who I was evicting lived in a unit where I payed all of the utilities, he moved out in...
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I have a gut feeling that a prospective tenant is supplying false information on the application. The landlord was "glowing" about her as a tenant. I tried a free phone lookup to confirm the number belongs to the na...
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Hello Landlords,Are you a landlord overseeing/managing your own rental properties?If you do, how long have you been doing this? Do you still hold a full time job?If you already left your job, do you regret it?I have w...
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I had an applicant that I was interested in and wanted to contact their previous landlord to ask about their rental history. The previous landlord was managing an apartment complex of over a thousand units. When I se...
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This is my first full year of operating my units.
I recently looked at another property to buy and surprisingly to me my agent and loan guy told me not to write off everything I can with my current properties. My age...