Jay Herman
Legal definition of "Owner Occupied"
Hello! So, I have a rather specific question for you guys that I couldn't find by searching this forum/Googling.I'm in the market to buy a 4 bedroom/2 bathroom house in a college area. The 4 bedrooms are already rente...
Rocky Gibson
First Time Rental Property Purchase - Quick Question
Hi Everyone!A bit about me - I recently purchased my first home in June, and am now currently house hacking that property. This, along with my sister's background in real estate with 9~ units, got me excited to start ...
Rachael Agruso
What would you do or have done differently?
Hi Everyone - looking for some advice. Background - tenant is on Month to Month lease. His lease states he has to give me 30 days notice. He has a security deposit equal to one month's rent.
Long story short, I texte...
Ben Lin
Increasing rent of nice tenants
Hello BP community,
As I have good working relationships with most of my tenants, how do I increase their rents without them thinking I am a greedy landlord? On one hand I feel kind of bad raising rents but on the o...
Andrea Coulter
Eviction Ban is OUTRAGIOUS!
I am a small landlord in upstate NY with 5 rentals. I was in the process of evicting a tenant in March when COVID happened. This tenant has not paid rent since December 2019! in three days it will be 13 months that I ...
Web A.
Tenant refusing to pay or communicate with landlord
Hey BP I own a rental property here in Newark NJ. I inherited a tenant when i purchased this rental in April 2020 and her lease ends February 15th 2021. She has paid on time every month but recently she decided not t...
Dave Mills
Tenant says AC not working AC Contractor says otherwise
We have a single floor 1300 sqft house with 6 year old Trane hvac system. Yesterday, Tenant messaged me and stated that the system was not working around 3AM, so we dispatched a AC contractor to check the system that ...
Wei Jie Yang
STR Markets with a max ~$550K range
Any suggestions for markets for STR with a property in the range of ~550K? I have no experience with short term rentals but I'm investing in Cleveland with Holton Wise on a property that we're going to be using as a S...
Kathryn Bowden
Keep or change Windows?
We've been going back and forth on this one. This cottage when done will sell in the $135-$145,000 range. This will be a good price for a house this size in this area. So not a high dollar flip. It was built in 19...
Dave Younts
How Do You Do Your Daily Accounting? Apps/Software?
So I currently have one rental property. It is under my name and not an LLC, but I plan to create an LLC and quit-claim it very soon (any advise on this would be greatly appreciated).I have been using my personal che...