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Today, we were in the neighborhood and stopped by our home. We discovered multi people adults and children have moved in without consent/ notice/ in violation of tenants section 8 agreement. Also, discovered a medium ...
Hey everybodyI just need to vent for a minute...I’m a total newbie trying to rent my first apartment and I unfortunately have learned some very valuable lessons right out of the gate. Basically I showed the apartment...
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I have three applicants (wanting to live together) for my single family home that are very inexperienced. They moved away from their parents last year to move to another state and are moving back to this area (home)....
Just bought my first rental property (1 bedroom condo) in the Walnut Creek, California area (SF Bay Area).I bought it all cash so I don't have any holding costs other than HOA, and property taxes.At this point, I'm no...
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The Arkansas Real Estate Commission (AREC) discussed real estate investing and unlicensed real estate activity at its monthly meeting this morning. AREC expressed a desire to protect unsavvy, sometimes desperate sell...
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I just purchased a multi unit property in Ontario and the rents are quite low in comparison to what they should be. So I have a couple questions about going about these increases. I have been making some improvements ...
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What is the standard approach when renting to an unmarried vs married couple? My thought was that if it's an unmarried couple, they must individually qualify to be a tenant or else their name cannot go on the lease as...
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Since I don't have the resources to fund every deal I come across, I've been doing some research on wholesaling/birddogging. It appears that there are two basic ways to do this.
Contract Assignment
As I understand it...
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All the gurus, etc promoting unlicensed brokering forgot to mention this: many of their ideas are illegal in some states. In Florida, you cannot advertise property you do not own even if you have a contract on the pro...
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Full story below: Skip to the bullet points for the tl;dr.I purchased a few properties to be a rental properties from another landlord, who is something of a slum lord and was willing to offload some houses that need ...