Lindsay Wilcox
Homeowner Living in Non-Conforming Unit?
This might be a pretty unique question, but since I know there are several people who started their RE journeys buying a MF house and living in one of the units, I'm hoping there might be someone who can shed some ...
Gloria A.
Housing Appealing to High Point University Students
Hi all!I'm Gloria and am incredibly new to real estate. I'm currently a full time professional student, and am looking to use real estate as a means of paying off my student loans and attaining financial freedom.Curre...
Paul Winka
Have you had to hard wire your smoke & monoxide detectors?
During a walk-through of my property today, my contractor says that my 1966-built single family with basement will need hard-wired detectors: Plain old smoke detectors in bedroom, and combo smoke/monoxide detectors ne...
Phil C.
Coin Laundry
How much can one expect in revenue from adding coin-ops in a 4-plex? I have seen some listings which advertise $50-$75/week, is this a good estimate? Also, has anyone dealt with the maintenence of these things? Doe...
Edward Seid
Tenants reporting their cars broken into - LL responsible?
Hello everyone,I have a SFR rental in Seattle near a university with students as the renters. The house is on hill overlooking the street which runs parallel to the freeway so one side of the street has houses and the...
Dion DePaoli
Tenants Doing Capital Improvements
An interesting issue has come across my desk and I am curious if any other LL have bumped against a similar issue.
The general concept, tenants move in on a run of the mill standard annual rental contract. Tenants...
Mark McKeny
Advice for making our money go as far as possible
My wife and I are actively putting together a business plan and trying to get a grip on our financial needs. Our primary focus at this point is SFRs up to a four-plex for a buy-and-hold. We both have full time jobs ...
Sean Autry
Help With Maintenance Protocol
Hi BP Community-
I'm dealing with my first maintenance call on my first rental and I have two questions:
1). When sending a service person out to your rental (plumber, electrician, etc), I know I have an ethical (a...
Ken Nyczaj
Self Manage- no liability protection under LLC?
From what I've read on prior posts it seems many have the opinion of by self-managing your rental properties, you will not gain any liability protection by owning the asset and performing the property management under...
Luka Milicevic
How often should you communicate with your tenants?
Hello BP community,I am a newer investor. I only own 1 townhome and have my first tenants living there for about 3.5 months. They moved in June 1, 2015. They called me for a repair around middle of June. I went out to...