Babek Sandhar
Bold Prediction: Real Estate Prices Drop 30-60% in Metro. Cities
As our stock market begins to recover, Covid-19 cases seem to be "slowing" down, and the economy seems to be through the worst of this pandemic, I am far from convinced this is even close to over. It seems we are seei...
Brendan M.
Flexible Tenant Selection Criteria?
I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...
Luke Carl
Thoughts on placing this tenant
Great job 809 credit score. 12 hits on criminal record the worst being battery with intent to cause physical harm (3 counts total) and Burglary of a Dwelling. Both of these were in the 90s.
There was another battery ...
Joe Splitrock
Downtown Real Estate Values Destroyed
What are the long term effects going to be of the arson, looting and vandalism in downtown areas across America? Businesses were already in financial trouble. Now struggling businesses received the final blow. What ef...
Ken Powers
Are there ever too many bedrooms in a unit?
I've been researching multi-family houses, and a thought occurred to me. Most of the apartments I know of have 3 bedrooms or less. Most of the condos I've ever seen are also 3 bedrooms or less. Is this an indicatio...
Neil G.
OR Land Grab & Eminent Domain: a Blow to Homesteads & Where Next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBseD64Lt0cAs some 200 FBI vehibles storm Ranch in Burns, OR it's quickly starting to look like the next 'Waco'-like federal siege in the making. Remember that Davidian cult? (Well at l...
Jerrad Shepherd
Poem I wrote about being a landlord
I am blessed to be bored, living life as a landlord. Business is grand when everything’s slow, that’s the time to be saving my dough. No shortage of stunning problems to face, still way better than running the rat-r...
Mike B.
Newbie - First Ever Tenant Screening
I found my first tenant and everything seemed fine. I went over the requirements with her. Gross income three times rent, Credit score greater than 600, etc... All is good she says. During the showing she mentioned he...
Charlie MacPherson
16 Years after 9/11/2001
16 years ago today, I dodged a big bullet. Working as a sales manager covering most of the US and Canada, I would normally have boarded a Monday morning flight from Logan Airport in Boston to fly to work with wit...
Mike Healey
Income Requirements for Tenant Criteria
I am in the process of going through the tenant application/screening process for the first time. Currently I'm writing up some selection criteria and came across a question on income requirements. I went with the sta...