Matt Faix
Keeping Track of Monthly Bills and Staying Organized
Curious what everyone does to keep track of all utility accounts and monthly bills for your properties. We have 7 units across 3 properties right now and varying accounts for each one - Gas, Electric, Water, Trash, Se...
Eric Odum
Homeless Issues
We have a small retail strip in Tampa. It has been a real challenge because of the homeless. It is actually in a decent area, close to Carrollwood, but it is also close enough to suit case city that the homeless can...
Tanya F.
Tenant in nice property not paying utilities
We had new tenants move in this past April into an A/B property and we learned they haven't been paying the gas bill. Their credit was 675 and income was good and all references checked out as excellent. We include ...
Ray Lim
Taking a look at multi-family homes
I found this market flyer for this property
It is a 8-unit multi-family property being sold at $800,000.
The market flyer seems to do the basic number crunching already. It calculated a CAP of 6%. It also already c...
Bienes Raices
Is this normal?
Tenants paid, got the keys etc. today. They told me they want to paint one of the rooms in the house, make one alteration, and bring a dog (but they'd told me before that they weren't bringing any pets because of alle...
David Nelsen
Splitting utilities in a duplex
We are about to close on a duplex that has separate electric but only one furnace, AC and hot water heater. Anyone have ideas on how to best split the utilities or bill back to the renters?
Currently there is only on...
Cody DeLong
Replacing Electric Baseboard in 9 Unit.
I'm in a pickle and I'm trying to figure out what I should do. Currently under contract with a 9 unit apartment complex. It has an oil boiler that heats 1 apartment and 1 commercial space. All of the other 7 Units ...
Lynn Currie
Video Diary of an Austin, Texas Spec Home
Hi All,I'm FINALLY ready to launch something that I've been working on - a new construction project documented through videos.In order to get a head start and work through some of the logistics of setting up the video...
Chinmay J.
A year in review -2017.. Where do you go from here?
*Please keep in mind while reading this that I work 45-50 hrs a week in my corporate W2 job*2017, or rather tail end of 2016 was the first year that I got really serious about Real Estate Investing. Prior to that, I p...
Edgar Perez
Quadplex Winter guidelines for tenants?
Hi there,
I am in Wisconsin and have a Quad where I'd like to set some guidelines specific to winter for the tenants.
Some details:
2Upper/2lower, (2)studios/(2)1bed
each lower has control of thermostat for both...