Brandon Leong
Insurance questions - deductible? liability? umbrella?
Hello, Everyone!I am currently in the process of setting up insurance for a property I bought in Kansas City. I was wondering, the typical insurance you need is: Landlord insurance (for fires, hail, explosions etc..) ...
Chase Randolph
Inherited Tenant Pre-Close Issues
Hello!I am gearing up to close on a duplex at the end of February, and will be taking on inherited tenants in the second unit while I live in the first.They have filled out and signed the estoppel agreement (still wai...
Jarrod Patterson
Listing MTRs on Apartments.com
Hi everyone. My wife and I are new to the MTR game. We listed on Apartments.com for their management tools (saw it recommended in a thread on here). We do plan to also list with ALE and some other sites, but curious i...
Bret N.
This password is..Syndicate?
I am a Realtor but my bread and butter is shifting more and more to investing,of the past 3 years. I have been able to raise quite a lot of money because of my credibility earned as an agent and just always being an h...
Russell Caraotta
Interesting Conundrum - Thoughts Please!
I own a nice 2 family home (3 bedrooms, 1200 sq feet) with good rents in a demand section of Buffalo. My upstairs tenant (currently occupied by him, his long term girlfriend and their 9 yr old daughter) was about to s...
Richard Ochoa
Tenant not paying rent
My tenant just emailed me the following, "Hello Richard,Everything is going.....Not sure if we can make the rent this month due to my unemployment being halted this last pass weeks........shall be restarting here will...
Ana Garcia
Advice on having insurance on your property
Hello BP community, After almost getting hit with a category 5 hurricane in South Florida, I wonder if it is a good idea to have more coverage or less. As investors, we try to keep our costs low, therefore, the goal w...
Loren Whitney
Life changes... Renting my primary only 9 months after purchase
Hi everyone,
My family and I purchased our first home in May, 2012. We moved into our new home the same day we received our keys at closing and have loved everyday in the home since. Many life events have transpired ...
Ben Callahan
Do you actually have to live in the house?
Hey all. Just curious, could someone purchase, say a triplex, using a FHA loan, rent out two of the three units, retaining the third unit for yourself, but not actually live in it? Is that acceptable from the FHA pers...
Nick Bruckner
Airbnb - how much do you pay yourself?
I have a cousin who self manages several Airbnbs but he doesn’t have much free time and several clients trying to decide how to use their multi family properties. STRs do well here in Alaska, but that’s also when we w...