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Hello everyone!My husband and I are looking to rent our house and will be managing it on our own. We have multiple rentals, but have always had a management company, so I am somewhat familiar with the process, but als...
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tell or vent out some of your craziest excuses as to why a tenant fell behind on their rent....it may help other landlords in the future...My most memorable was when I was a beginner landlord, this lady was renting a ...
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We just got word yesterday that our offer was accepted and we have the purchase contract back. Here's what happened.
I've had my eye on this cute little house that had been on ...
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Have you ever heard of "Platinum Properities DMV"? I ask because they claimed to be 6 years old yet their website domain is only 5 months old (lying about how old they are is a glaring red flag to me). I'm wondering i...
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The power went out at my house this morning. No big deal, we were planning on walking to school anyway. On the way back, we passed a neighbor, who couldn't take her kids to school because her car was in the garage. We...
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Hello from Chicago, New to real-estate and potentially interested in starting with multi-unit properties here in Chicago. I been doing some light searching around and found some pretty impressive numbers with relati...
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I have a possible tenant who meets all the requirements but they have mentioned they have MS and that they have had trouble renting due to this. Are there any issues I could run into by renting to this person?
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Took a chance on a young lady with 4 kids, as many landlords know, kids can be very detrimental to a property. A large percentage of landlords discriminate against children in the application process... I decided not ...