How do you charge renters with pets? Do you charge per pet and if so how much? Do you charge a different fee for cats vs dogs? What if they have a dog and a cat, then how do you charge?  Do you charge a one time fee o...

I am curious whether BiggerPockets has any forum concerning neighborhood rights in respect to absentee landlords. I have been a landlord several times in my younger days and now live in a small town neighborhood that ...

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So I bought a two family 5 bed apartment located in a student rental area (paid $128,00 currently rented for $1800 a month). The apartment was already rented until the school year (May 2013). The current tenants have...

Currently doing repairs from a tenant departure. Shocking how little regard people have for a brand new house that doesn't belong to them. Life lessons!One of the allowed deductions beyond material damage is wear tear...

Hey BP world hope everyone is well. I have been Bird Dogging here in Houston Texas for a little over 4 months now and in the beginning everything was going well I would drive for dollars and find vacant homes in estab...

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I’m a new investor and bought a vacant lot as a quit claim deed from a bank. The bank hadn’t paid taxes on the lot for the past 8 years. So, I paid the taxes and the bank gave me a quit claim deed. When I went to...

Hey, I have filed eviction for non-paying tenant, the court date is a week away. The tenant texted me this morning that they want to go to court, because they believed they can argue for lower rent. At the meantime, t...

I posted this last week under the Tax, Legal Issues, etc. forum category and not a single response.  I'm not sure if it's such a complicated situation that no one has any advice, or if I simply had the wrong category....