Kay March
Electric car fire risk in rental housing
After reading reports of serious, damaging fires caused by electric car batteries, I'm considering disqualifying potential tenants who have electric cars and putting a clause in my lease prohibiting electric cars and ...
Robert Hastings
wholesaling contracts and jerk chicken
i'm a huge fan of jerk chicken. I also own nine properties that I rent in Philadelphia... I understand conceptionally with wholesaling is. i'm not really selling a property I'm pretty much selling my rights to a re...
Paul Sandhu
Do you use an ozone generator in your STR?
Some of my kitchens have an "international" smell to them from renters that came from overseas. They cooked some of their traditional foods that were quite spicy. Some of my living rooms smell like smoke. I've sham...
Eric Kulling
Cigarette Smell - how to remove?
Any tips on how to get cigarette smell out of house? I don’t smell it but a lot of potential buyers say they can and it’s not a good first impression. I think it must be in the carpet...maybe removing is the best bet....
Nathan Wierzgac
Hiring Private Chef for my STR
Thinking of ways to make my Airbnb stand out a little more and I’m tossing around the idea of hiring a private chef for one night. Not sure how to go about it - should I bake that price into the nightly rate of the re...
Bienes Raices
Walls are sticky
My offer was just accepted on an REO. There is visible mold in one closet (photo below), but also the walls in some of the rooms seem to have a sticky feeling. I don't mean that there's actual goop or liquid on the wa...
John P.
Oil Tank Removal
Hi all,
I am bidding on a house that has been converted to gas heat. Unfortunately, the old oil tank is still in the basement and has a small leak. I can't tell how much oil is in the tank. Has anyone dealt w...
Account Closed
How are they getting AC filter so dirty?
Here is a picture of AC filters from a duplex that I changed yesterday. A side was replaced at 2 months and B side at 3 months. What are your thoughts on what the tenants are doing on the A side to get the AC filter t...
Nathan Gesner
How to deal with smoke-stained walls/ceiling
I just bought an apartment complex. One of the units was occupied for nearly 30 years by a chain smoker. He had a stroke one week after I bought the place and his family is cleaning out the apartment. SIDE NOTE: This ...
John Waterhouse
clean up help...
I rented my duplex out to some druggies (no, i didn't do a background check and yes, i will DEFINITELY do that from here on out), and they left the stench of meth and cigarettes in the place. I've painted and it just ...