Alex Goodwin
Hire a property manager or not?
Hello,My partners and I are having a disagreement about if we should hire a property management firm for our portfolio. We have a goal in mind of a hundred units or so. My thought process that while hiring a manager...
Chris Purcell
Do you raise rent on good tenants?
My theory is if a tenant pays on time and takes care of the house, leave the rent alone until they move on and then adjust it for a new tenant.Have heard so many times from friends where their landlord raises it and t...
Katherine Earle
Aggressive Inherited Tenant
I have owned an apartment complex for about a year now. Apprehensively, I let one of the inherited tenants sign a 12-month lease. He has been very cranky during the renovations, to say the least. He seemed to change h...
Charlie Hampton
Update on my squatter...
I figured I would stop hijacking @rob k's thread and start my own about my squatter. For those who didn't read about my issue, I have a squatter living in a shed on a property I bought. The squatter was claiming ...
David G.
I'm having issues telling a tenant to remove their bike from the laundry room
Hi all. How do I deal with this tenant? They live on the first floor of a small ten-unit building. You have to walk up several steps from the ground floor to get there. The laundry room is on ground floor. The laund...
Shannon Shannon
How to understand if I can ever be granted permission to work from home while in an HOA that says NO?
I am simply beside myself. I am VERY new to SC...and about to put in an offer on a home only to realize the HOA forbids ANY home businesses of ANY kind. My career is in family based home child care (6 or less kids)......
Taylor Nunn
If you started all over again, what would you do differently?
I've come across a lot of different stories on Bigger Pockets, and there are people who come from all different types of backgrounds. Everyone has had a different starting point. If you were young again, where would y...
Wendy Schultz
Hardest Lessons Learned from Short Term Rentals
What have been your hardest lessons learned in short term rentals? I'd be curious to hear the experiences that others have had. I'd say my hardest lesson learned is overestimating how quickly a new property will reach...
Account Closed
What's the best piece of advise you'd give new RE agents?
Hi everyone,I just passed my Illinois broker's test a week ago and I recently joined KW. I have a FT job at a bank but I'm planning on devoting at least 40-50 hours a week to my real estate career.Can anyone give me ...
Gregory Schwartz
College Towns: Are we approaching a buying opportunity
For those of you that buy and hold in college towns do you see this fall as...A. The same old housing market, all the students will be back. Sunshine and rainbows for everyoneB. Buying opportunity. This is the Thursda...