I am just starting my development company- A & A Builders LLC- that goes hand in hand with my real estate & property management company- Donna Farrow & Company. The idea is that I take the investors I mana...
I have a duplex in South Minneapolis and unit #1 has two tenants who signed a year lease. They have always paid on time, but recently a tenant who just move in just over a month ago wrote to me that she would like to...
I closed on my first property in December 2021 and got it rented out by mid January. The tenants I chose are a young couple with 2 small children. They passed my screening with flying colors. Great references from the...
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I was reading a real estate book that mentions a strategy of how investors can make a quick profit by putting down a deposit on a new home that a builder or developer hasn't even started, basically, making a reservati...
Nov 1 I had my first tenants leave. I had many problems with them, being loud late at night, trash on the property, and basically had to send a 30 day notice to get them to leave.They actually left the property in pre...
Would you keep a "Pet Fee" out of the security deposit? In this instance I am holding 1.5 months deposit ($1,725). Otherwise the tenants were perfectly pleasant. So what do you think is fair in this instance? We're...
If a month-to-month tenant wishes to move to another unit in a building, should we do an addendum to his current lease (showing the new unit and new price), or just a brand new lease? IF the later, is there some pr...
I just submitted my deposit on a rental property, so excited!! The current tenants have a lease with the current owner. When closing comes, do I take a brand new lease to the tenants and hope and pray they sign (I wan...
We just purchased a property with existing tenants and a 12 mo lease in Texas (Tarrant county). They are brand new so we have no idea of their quality (and the previous landlord didn't even get a security deposit!).We...