Curt Bixel
Preventing burglary and squatters at a short term rental
Recently, I had a break in at a short term rental I have in Columbus, Ohio. The unit had only been vacant for two days when someone kicked in the back door. I was lucky notice the break in quickly, as I just happene...
Damian Smith
What to do when block may be preventing sale
What are creative ways to sale a house when the block getting not so stellar reviews. Its a small block down from a commercial streetKnew going in would be better 1 block farther away from commercial block. Block Actu...
Nadiyah M.
How do I prevent theft in my rental property?
I recently purchased a rental in an undesirable area. I have identified a property manager, but how should I go about securing the property while we rehab?
Russell Brazil
Intentionally Broke Key In Lock To Prevent Showings....Complain?
I want to ask what you agents...and maybe even investors would do in this situation. I had a showing set up, one what I suspect was going to be a very hot property. Property was listed very late on Tuesday night. I s...
Bryce Pryor
Room by room renting. Advice to prevent later headaches.
Hello everyone. I'm closing on a home in Northglenn Colorado mid August and planning to do a room by room rental in the basement area. First time home owner and this will be my first time ever renting to anyone. The h...
Jason Grote
Appraisal just cost us $20k - how to prevent this?
We are near the end of a flip of a higher end home. We got it under contract for $400k - $5k in closing costs, but the buyer's agent was concerned about the appraisal, so we put verbage in the contract that said that...
Shawn H.
Would large trees prevent you from purchasing a rental?
I have seen several houses lately that would be good purchases. But, they have large trees that could pose future maintenance/costs to remove. By large I mean 4' diameter, 60'+ tall. Should this prevent a purchase, or...
Lara Fobian
Preventing time wasted on calls from tire-kicker buyers?
Anyone got ANY TIPS AT ALL to minimize wasting time with UNQUALIFIED and/or UNSERIOUS tire-kicker buyers that call you? (This is when working with retail / market-price house-buyers who need to qualify for a bank loan...
Jimmey Green
Break in prevention for flips and other vacant properties
Is anyone putting safeguards in place to protect empty properties, especially those with construction going on? We had a break in last night on one of our projects; fortunately, sheet rock is going in and loss was min...
Jason Bilbrey
Live in manager/maintenance threatening lien to prevent sale
Looking for some advice. I’m about two weeks away from closing on a 6-Plex and the seller just notified me that his live in manager/maintenance guy threatened to put a construction lien on the property. They have no w...