Who's renting by the room on their properties? I'm interested in experimenting with this on one of my condos in a college town.  My questions are:-How do you try to pair up compatible "roommates" without having fair h...

Hello BP,I am in the process of closing a deal on SW Side of Chicago. The building has outstanding code violations from prior to rehab. After talking to a city representative, he stated that the building had an initia...

Hello everyone, im 24 i have debt monthly expense is 280 to 350 a month, i have 140k cash and credit score is 776. I want to buy a 4 unit home in nj around north jersey to do fha loan 3.5% and rehab it with a 203k loa...

Curious what other landlords do for a holding deposit/fee so that they will take their ad off the market, before the new tenant moves in.  Do you require it to equal one month's rent?  Half a month's rent?  Some othe...

I have been brainstorming what I believe would serve as a dual strategy to play the rental property game the right way. Combining a 1st lien HELOC in lieu of having a mortgage. The advantages of a HELOC over a mortgag...

Hi All,

Ok perhaps I posted in the wrong area the first time I posted this, but for whatever reason it was removed from the general forum with no explanation for it so I'm reposting it here in hopes that it stays pos...

I am debating allowing pets into the apartment complex I own. I am curious of what other people do and if anyone feels passionate one way or another.

I've got prospective tenants that want to build a fence for their dog, at their cost as they've got a friend who builds fences for a living that could do it for them.

My prop mgr thinks it is a plus since a fenced in...

I've heard that I should shop around for mortgages, but do I need to do this at the pre-approval stage?  And am I correct that I'm not tied to use the lender who pre-approved me?

This is very long. It goes over in detail what happened to me, what caused it. How i came to buy my first home and why desperation caused me to think out of the box for a solution to repair my life and the steps i did...