Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...

[punchline at the end] I have a legacy tenant that has been living in the building since purchase (7 years ago) and they recently killed their gas range with only one of 4 burners working.  When they notified me it wa...

I thought it would be nice to have a collecting point for day to day money/time savers for rentals. Some things I do or have seen on the forum so far:

Remove storm doors.
Advertise rentals on craigslist
Remove or lo...

Greetings all, I am in a unique situation and I am not exactly sure how to proceed with it. Here is the story. I sold a flip house approximately a little over a  month ago. The house was sold FSBO with no agent on the...

Looking for advice from some experienced landlords!

In short, we have a tenant whose lease started July 1,2019. Since she moved in her requests and complaints have been incessant. From the initial walkthrough, leas...

I sometimes have to give tenants, what I call an "attitude adjustment".Below is an email that I sent to a tenant.  In her email, she talked about invoicing me for when she had to talk to the utility company.  I sent t...

I just closed on a SFH rental in an area I'm familiar with. I closed the deal myself. For more propeties I've contacted three agents from different Brokerages and all three have given me the "thanks but no thanks" rou...

I have a daughter in college with a 4yr tuition bill that will total $120,000 plus. So, while money is tight I thought it would be a good idea to purchase home warranties for our 3 homes (10 individual units in total ...

Hello all!

We just finished rehabbing this property and the back neighbor comes out to tell us that his water lines go across our yard. He is claiming a leak and needing repairs. There is no easement or legal documen...