I am in the process of closing on the purchase of an 8-Unit apartment complex in Florida.  Each unit has four bedrooms and four bathrooms.  The property is within 1 mile of a major public University.  Each of the bedr...

Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you!

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Had the wonderful opportunity to hire my first employee this year. I have also now had to fire her. Has anyone been successful in avoiding paying unemployment? My employee lied, cheated and stole from us...more th...

Brand new landlord here.  We just closed on our first duplex in December where one unit is currently rented out and the other is vacant.  I just received a call from our tenant that she had a break in.  This is the se...

I recently heard about an all in one mortgage.  I wish I knew about this early, it sounds like it wold have saved me thousands over the last couple years.  First, I would love to hear any all comments or advice in gen...

I have two rehabs going on side by side. My main contractor doesn't have the resources to complete both projects at the same time. This forced me to hire a second guy. Initial conversations went really well. He was a ...

What is everyone's thoughts and opinions on accepting credit card payments from tenants?  I have generally veered away from credit card payments as now the tenant is in debt to my company and the credit card company c...

We've all heard the excuses:My grandma died and I had to fly to (name the state) for her funeralI had to go back to (name the state) for my best friend's weddingSomeone stole my identity and emptied my bank accountI'm...

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who uses houzz, so I wanted to give everyone a heads up that houzz suffered a data breach and had had usernames and hashed password stolen. If you use houzz, you should consider y...

This showed up in my facebook feed and I started wondering what responsibility the landlord or new tenant has for previous tenants mail? I'd write Return to Sender a few times, but then I'd get fed up. I would probabl...