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4 tenants (students) were supposed to pay security deposit today for April 1 move in. I have not signed lease yet as I want all signatures, co-signers and security deposit in place. They just let me know they can pay ...
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I am in process of buying one property and wanted to understand how lease agreements are transferred (or have owner name updated). Does escrow handle that along with holding rents/deposits etc? or it need to be clearl...
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So we have a very nice SFH that rents for a premium in a very nice neighborhood. We vetted the couple that moved in last year. Everything has been going fine, hell, they pay rent two months ahead every other month. Th...
Hello BPersBackground:I have a new-ish tenant (~6 months into the lease). Have been low maintenance, very courtesy family that seem overall very good people. During the evaluation process, this family didnt quite fi...
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My business partner and I have found a great deal for a buy and hold but it definitely needs repairs. We would like to use a hard money lender to finance the purchase price and repair cost. I spoke to one this morning...
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I currently have two applications:
1. A single man who just divorced and got debts from the divorce. He said his credit was serverly damaged by divorce, so he would like to prepaid 10K around 7 month rents but he don'...
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A 20 year old college student is wanting to rent my cottage for 6 months because she graduates this year and is planning on moving out of state. Her grandfather will be paying me the full amount up front. She is curre...
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Does anyone has experience buying Bankruptcy Trustee Short sales?I just started stepping my foot into Real Estate Investing. I'm interested in a short sale that is asking for 70,000. The value of the house after repai...
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Hi All, I have a landlord-renter dispute that I was wanting to run by you all to gather some input before I proceed further.
For some background, I bought a property in a small college town in July 18’ in which I inh...
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Hey All,
I was wondering about how much deposit to ask for?
Also, what is security deposit in " Certified Funds"???? What does certified funds mean?
Daniel