Raj Khadilkar
Overseas (out of USA) investors - USA embassy notarial service??
Hey BP community,I hold a small portfolio of four properties in Memphis. I am sorting out my cash out loans on my SFR's in Memphis. Have hit a major hurdle with lender and title company with notarising the docs by the...
Mazen Al Ashkar
Online Rent payments in Canada
Hello, What is your favorite method of payment online for rent as a landlord? I was looking into rentpayment.com or yapstone.com for my units in Montreal but they only seem to work in the US. @Olivier LePage @Guillaum...
Christian Hutchinson
Tenant Screening
Doing a Rental to two foreign nationals here. Literally been in the USA 10 days. No Driver's License, Credit, SS#, etc. They have Passports from their home country, and Visas for the USA. They have Medical School R...
Tom Kilburn
New possible tenant
Hi everyone!
I purchased my first rental. 2 bdrm in a small town. Interesting call today from a potential tenant: she lives in Canada and has almost 2 yrs left in her contract and then will be moving back to this ar...
Chris Roche
Background checks for new tenants
Hey all, What measures do you take before renting to tenants? How do you do background checks? How do you do credit checks? Any advice would be appreciated.Also, how do you collect rent? Do you have a check mai...
Bryenne Korte
I rent out my primary residence -- what should I do now??
Hi All -- I lived in my single family home (which I have an FHA loan) for two years before I started renting it out to tenants. I've now owned the home for three years, and have had almost a year of rental income. I l...
Sargis Yeghikyan
As a 16 year old, what should I focus on?
Hey there! I'm a 16-year-old kid, based in Los Angeles area, looking for some real estate advice! I would really appreciate if the bigger pockets community could help me out, and post a couple of tips on how to get st...
Rommel Pascual
"No Comment" to my landlord screening questions
This is my first time screening a tenant. I got the responses below to the my questions. Is this typical responses to screening questions? I'm just curious and do you have any suggestions? The property management didn...
Mindy Jensen
Automatically Eliminating Criminal Records? Not so fast, says HUD
Criminal record? For years, landlords have been able to automatically disqualify any tenant with a criminal record - as they were not a protected class under Fair Housing Laws. Recent recommendations from HUD are call...
Chelle Knijnenburg
lease change the renter (a lawyer) wants to add about escrow
Hello all.Our future renter wants to put these two items in the contract, one is in case we put the house on the market. Note that she is a lawyer. We don't fully understand the escrow clause and how it might affect ...