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What do you think of this rental applicant?Cons: A bankruptcy "less than a year old" (I'm not sure if that's since filing or since discharge), no recent rental history because he was a homeowner, a new wife from his n...
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Today I want to share when I acquired my first mortgage notes. It was November 2016 when I decided to pull the trigger after six months of research and building an excel model that lets just say I went overboard with....
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I’m a first-time landlord (just signed my first fully-occupied LTR in Jan 2025) and have already run into my first potential tenant issue. I have two long-term tenants in the duplex—one for 5 years and the other for 7...
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Here are some questions that I have: These are about negotiation with real estate and specifically is about receiving phone calls from advertising for buying homes. okay, so first question1. Is it better to ask the b...
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