Thomas Lillevold
Think twice about "Cash for Keys" to rid yourself of bad tenant
Greetings everyone,I have to inject my personal opinion here. I recently went through a bad eviction with a commercial tenant that I inherited with a building I purchased. And all during conversations about this wi...
Nina B.
Is agreeing to rental terms considered a binding verbal contract?
A Father came to look at our rental for his newly graduated college son. I gave the Father a Rental Application as well as an Oregon Rental Application Addendum & Fee Disclosure. The Father dropped of both signed ...
John Hyre
Pass-Thru Deduction, Landlords, New Regs
Panic! Landlords Cannot Take New Pass-Thru Deduction! NOT.The IRS just came out with proposed regulations on the awesome new Pass-Thru Ded...
Account Closed
What's the best piece of advise you'd give new RE agents?
Hi everyone,I just passed my Illinois broker's test a week ago and I recently joined KW. I have a FT job at a bank but I'm planning on devoting at least 40-50 hours a week to my real estate career.Can anyone give me ...
Scott Trench
Mortgage Deferral for ALL residential Real Estate
There's a lot of press going around about HUD suspending foreclosures on homeowners and many states and cities no longer processing evictions. I can't agree or disagree with the politics and/or health reasons for this...
Karen Lomison
Smokies Advice- Age & BRs
Hi BP! First time poster, couple month lurker ;)Looking for advice for buying a STR in the Smokies. My sister bought 2 cabins recently from @AveryCarl and I think I've finally convinced my husband to get in on the a...
Alicia Marks
QOTW: Are natural disasters affecting your investment strategy?
If you didn't catch the "Seeing Greene" episode recently, an excellent question was presented that I thought would be worth discussing. Every area you invest in has risks of natural disasters of all kinds, but these d...
Ruben Morgan
TCS Foreclosures - need help...
Hello everyone,
I'm a new member here and have been doing a lot of reading and trying to use the search function as much as possible before asking questions. But now I have one for everybody and I would greatly appr...
Shane Welch
Nightmare Tenant + What should I have done different?
For those of you reading this is a bit of a rant/story, followed by a couple questions. Please let me know what I SHOULD have done in this situation, so I can know better in the future. Thank you for reading. Th...
Robert Willard
Is the shine wearing off on STR's?
I have been lurking around this site for a couple of years now. In 2020 my wife and I were seriously considering doing a STR. We picked Nashville as the market we wanted to pursue. Long story short, the market was ...