Preston Roper
Buying My First Foreclosure .... CONCERNS
I am looking into buying a Foreclosure to do as a potential BRRRR deal. I have a few reservations that i wanted to see if anyone on BP could shed some light on. I am looking into these mainly because the inventory in ...
Account Closed
Unsupervised Minors left alone in rented unit
A rather scary incident today at one of my units. A neighbor came up to me while I was inspecting another unit and was concerned about the noise coming from a different unit. We knocked on the door and a 12 year old a...
Neera Melwani
Rental Term Question
Hi BP! I have a SFR rental in Austin and it is currently occupied by 4 roommates, and their lease is up at the end of July. 3 out of the 4 tenants would like to renew their lease, and they found a fourth roommate to c...
Gabe J Schwarz
Closing and mortgage verification timing + mortgage w/o income
Hey Folks,I'm looking to purchase my first investment property and I'm on a bit of a tight schedule because I'm looking to leave my current gig towards the end of July. I have plenty of wealth in investment accounts t...
Leeling Chew
Vacating a Noisy Tenant in a Rent By Room Situation
Bigger Pocket Community,
I need advice from rent-by-the-room owners and Texas lawyers.
Quick introduction. I own a property in Austin (3 Bed 2 Bath). I was doing LTR but decided to renovate to do STR. To pay for the...
Sam Leon
Tenant leaving lights on FOREVER
What do fellow landlords think about tenants who leave lights on FOREVER. By that I don't mean long hours, I mean to never turn a light off day or night for months.I have a tenant who says for security reasons she pr...
Chris Guglielmo
Removing Month-Month Tenants in 2021
We are in the process of purchasing a multi-family unit. There are currently month-to-month tenants in one of the units that we would like to renovate and live in. They have been month to month for nearly 8 months and...
Robert Niessen
Non responsive tenant
Hi folks, looking for some advice. We bought a duplex at the end of December 2016, our first. We inherited one tenant which proven challenging. Good news is they came with several months of prepaid rent. Bad news ...
Cathy Kendall
shortening a lease renewal
My tenant's annual lease is up this month and they want to do a month to month since they are job hunting, and could get something at any time. My concern is covering the turnover time, and I am trying to figure out ...
Claude Hodge
Rental market.....1 year from now?
Hey everyone. As I have mentioned in a couple of posts, I am leaving shortly for 1 year in Afghanistan. My plan is to come back and jump into investing in rentals. My concern is what the market may look like at tha...