I currently manage my mother's property that is using a rent by the room strategy. Last week the A/C in our unit fried from a power surge and required a new thermostat and tablet piece. After back and forth with the t...

I own a 5 unit apartment building. It really is a very old house (I would guess built in the 1920's) that was converted into apartments sometime in the 80's.  This property has a huge hassle factor and is a headache.T...

My wife and I are moving to a college town in Texas next year. We are planning on purchasing a rental property (our first), hopefully doing some house hacking along the way.

I ideally want to purchase a quadplex, bu...

Pilot goes out AFTER it heats the water. That is, I can start the pilot light, and it will stay on (even all night - as i left it in pilot mode), but once the gas turns on and heats the water for awhile (not sure ho...

So today me and my maintenance guy come over to cut the grass and change out the thermostat and to our surprise there's all this water on the new vinyl plank flooring in the dining room. The eldest daughter, 14yo, st...

Hey BP Family,I’m looking at a vacation rental in Daytona Beach. 1/1 condo. Looks to be in great shape, great location, seems lucrative on the surface. Never done vacation rentals, so this would be my first one. I’m l...

I had a zoom call yesterday with my manager and a member of our housekeeping team.  We kind of got off topic and started talking about the "calls to remember" from this past summer.  Here are a few:
- "Dryer is smell...

Twice this morning I have read posts where people have asked this question.How often do you go through your rentals? I have a friend who rents to college kids, and he "offers" to change the furnace filter every month ...

Hi all, this is a hypothetical question I have for you investors/landlords. Obviously, people have work order requests come up, and most of the time, its pretty reasonable requests that do require external assistance;...

Hi all!

I'm Matt and I've been reading the forums for a few weeks, burning through the BP podcasts and figured it was time to introduce myself.

I'm 29 and live in Queens, NY and work in claims for an...