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Up until now, I've been cheering the Fed on, grateful that Jerome Powell took his lumps for the way too easy money policies in late 2021, and cranked hard on interest rates to beat inflation. I think in 2022, this Fed...
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Hello.....
Well it has come to my attention that charging an application fee in Massachusetts in not legal? Or shall I say BREAKING THE LAW! Looking for confirmation? Anyone?
In this situation; I finall...
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I just created an LLC for my rental property, so this is all new to me. Is there any reason to pay a salary to my spouse? If I pay her, to make this simple let's say $2k a month, she'll pay taxes on that which means...
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Obviously there is some controversy with the use of bandit signs, especially if they're illegal in your city, but I've heard a lot of investors who have put out hundreds of signs a month having great success with it. ...
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From what I've read in the forums it seems that conventional wisdom here is it's best to hire only contractors & handymen that are insured. I adopted this perspective when I started as a landlord as I tend to trus...
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I’m in the works go setting up an llc for fix and flips for asset protection, up till this point Ive been set on doing a single member llc since I wont have any partners. I’ve been reading Loopholes of Real Estate and...
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The tenants ‘boyfriend’ leaves the property and oddly enough, another male shows up for a short amount of time. This happens regularly, according to the on-site care taker of the property. There’s either drug dealing,...
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I am a brand new rookie landlord. I just bought my first investment property in San Diego County (tiny condo) and started showing it to potential tenants. I have a potential tenant that is in a Rapid Re-Housing progra...
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So, my original plan was to drop "handwritten letters" off in every single mailbox of my town of 850 homes (they are all close proximity so as far as walking to each house it could be done in one or two days. Its jus...
Today a woman, her mother and 5-year old daughter viewed my small two-bedroom condo that I have listed for annual rental. The woman is looking for a place for herself and her two children (son is 2 years old). She i...