I have been speaking with short-term furnished rental owners who rent to workers or other travelers, and operate near national parks like Yosemite, in urban areas like Oakland and San Francisco, the desert and coastal...

I spent many years as an industrial/architectural paint sales rep. I feel like I could answer and have probably dealt with most issues you encounter so please feel free to shoot me a message if I can ever help you out! 

I just finished reading Christine Karpinski's book 'How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner' . The slant of it was that if you manage yourself and use portals like Airbnb, vrbo, etc. you can break even or even get po...

We are thinking of buying a rental beach house or bay side house in the  Galveston / Crystal Beach area. Does anyone have some good information on the recent insurance ratings, building codes or any other news of pert...

A friend made a reservation on VRBO for Thanksgiving. The host had a 5-day minimum set and non-holiday pricing in place. (Friend didn't realize it was non-holiday pricing.)Host sends friend a cancellation notice, and ...

Hi, does anyone have any experience with the new Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) plan in Los Angeles? If yes what happened and how did you do it?Thanks much in advance.

I closed escrow on the sale of my very first flip back in January. Craziness of life got in the way and I never got around to posting about it here. However, I figured it was time. I SERIOUSLY credit BP for some of th...

Hi All,Wondering if anyone has left a welcome present for new tenants moving in? If so what? Dan

I just signed up for Booking.com and got my first reservation within a week and turned out they were a bad guest.  The guest had brought additional guests than they listed on the reservation, doesn't respond to my mes...

Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...