There has been a growing trend recently of individuals looking to house hack single-family homes. While the traditional approach involves buying a multi family property, living in one unit and renting out the other - ...

I own a 3-unit property: a duplex and a carriage house. In the signed leases, I included a pet policy for the carriage house and the upstairs unit in the duplex. The final unit to sign - the lower apartment in the dup...

I know that tenant screening services exist, but is there anything out there that makes sure a tenant’s references are legitimate? I had an idea for a website/app business that landlords would sign up for and use to v...

I am trying to create an applicant/renter guideline for my rental property. I would like something that spells out the expectations for any applicant and tells the applicant a criminal, employment, and credit check ar...

I had a prospective tenant showing of a 2 bed 2 bath Townhome with a very small walled courtyard. The online questionairre indicated there would be 3 adults a 2 dogs. After speaking with the woman who showed up, she a...

Hi all,
I recently closed on a house in Austin, TX for $1.2m but the appraisal came back at $1.9m. Why such a discount you ask? Because the place came with 5 unrelated tenants (room share) 3 of which are delinquent ...

I’m getting a bunch of interest in an apartment that I rent out, but 50%+ don’t meet my screening criteria. Do you include your screening criteria in your ad to cut down on potential renters who don’t meet the screeni...

So I posted another topic on BP about how many SFR's in a LLC was too many. I was taken aback a little bit when the first 2 replies were that I didn't even need an LLC, just a good umbrella policy. I replied back...

I have not seen this problem addressed in short sale discussions.
I am losing some short sales because of the Private Mortgage Insurance. The lenders refuse to discount the mortgage because the insurance company deman...

Today I got 2 inquiries from prospective renters with service dogs. One is a chihuahua, and the other inquirer's dog is a puppy, and not even certified yet. It still has 26 weeks of training left before being certifie...