Athena Lei
Eviction - jury trial granted, help!
Hello to all pro landlords,We have an eviction problem. We have a property manager managing our rental house. The tenants have not been paying for several months now (rent have always been late since they rented the...
Kelly N.
Returning a Deposit Early- Inherited Tenant- Thoughts
Hello All,So we just closed on a rental house yesterday, and one of our new tenants would like to renew his lease, which is up at the end of March (over 6 months away). He has lived there for 3.5 years, claims to pay...
Nick Aalerud
My 3 Biggest Investor Mistakes...
I thought it may be useful if I shared some of the biggest mistakes I made as a real estate investor, and hopefully you can learn from my mistakes. You hear a lot of gurus say “my blood is all over this material”, and...
Pawel Kozak
Making offers with little success
Hello, just wanted to see how people stay motivated when making offers and not getting a lot of success as is the case in my situation. Is there strategies that work well when making an offer that will result in negot...
Dennis Davis
remove rental tenant from forclosure
Just purchased home from auction.com. How do I remove rental tenant?
Gerardo Martinez
Would you buy your first rental locally or in a different state?
I currently live in Orange County, California. I have around $50,000 to start investing. As you guys probably already know, southern California is very expensive. Could I start to invest with only 50k in California? ...
Esther C.
Mold after pipe burst and tenant is uncooperative
I had a pipe burst in one of my occupied rentals and the plumber said it was a "freak accident" and there was nothing we could have done about it. It was running for a few hours before we discovered it. We immediately...
Jayman Dalal
HB 1236 and impact on WA real estate
HB 1236 is being discussed in Senate soon. Here is a post on SeattleTimes summarizing the bill. Here are my thoughts on it. I wonder what other perspectives folks have? Does it make it harder to rent now?Pros- Puts mo...
Brian Davis
How my father's death changed my business
How my father's death changed my businessI was 2 years old when my dad died. He left early for work one day, had a seizure while driving and died in a car crash. He was 28 years old and never made it back home.I was h...
Laurie Williamson
Why do some listings have no interior photos, and missing info?
Ugh. I just drove an hour out of town, and back, to look at a fourplex, and didn't realize until I got there that it had been in a fire. The interior of one of the units was completely covered in black soot. This wa...