Brian Reynolds
Tenant was evacuated for 3 days, how to handle?
My rental house is located in Santa Clarita CA, where the big forest fire "Sand Fire" just went crazy last week. My property was close to the burn area, but no damage. The area was under mandatory evacuation for 3 day...
Samuel Mutschler
Possible Break In
SFH 2 bed, 2 bath. Tenants are related and both over 18. One tenant claims people are breaking into the house and hitting her at night. I’ve asked for police reports, received nothing, went to the house and found no d...
Daniel Lee
Aspiring REI new to Hawaii
Aloha gang! Just wanted to give a quick shout out to the BP community which I've been a huge fan of. I've been a passive onlooker for awhile now (browsing forums/reading articles) and am excited to learn and share mor...
Carl C.
Electric Dryer recomendations?
Hi everyone, The 20 year old dryer in our rental house died last week. I'm not required to provide a washer and dryer in the lease but since we had it there we'd like to replace it. The house is a student rental so I ...
Leo Varghese
Help! Very Dirty/Burst Toilet in basement
Hi all,
Recently purchased an investment property and have to remove this toilet and clean the area. Any ideas on how to go about doing this? Pour bleach on it? The property was part of an estate and no one has used ...
Isaiah Pearson
Escaping the apartment trap
Currently, I'm in my real estate journey where I signed a contract for a year's stay at an apartment because I didn't find a property to house hack in time. I was wondering how can I get out of an apartment contract t...
James H.
What to research and for how long?
Good fortunes and some changed some life plans have me very confident that I will be in a position to purchase another property in about 6 months. This will be a new personal residence. I will convert my current resid...
Patrick Butler
What does "Break Even" mean?
I'm new to BiggerPockets and have not done my first long term rental deal yet. While listening to the podcast, I keep hearing people say you are doing well if you are "breaking even" on a long term rental year 1 with...
Curtis Deckard
Advice on how to deal with renter breaking a contract.
Hey everyone. I need some advice. I have a renter who is going to break their contract which they just signed in January. It is a year contract. I was contacted by a manager at an apartment complex looking for a r...
Oleksandr Ivanovskiy
Tenant broke railing while falling in stairwell. Who responsible?
She claimed that lights were not working . She fall grab the railing and broke it.