Hello everyone, I am going to manage a rent by the bedroom house hack pretty soon and I am curious as to what systems some of you have used to handle maintenance request. My goal is to manage the property as if I’m no...

One of my tenants in a fourplex I recently purchased, March 2014, has been giving me the run a round with respect to rent. The very first month, April, she was late and claimed the bank made a mistake. I gave her...

Hello everyone, I really could use some advice on closings in general and specifically here in NY/NJ. I live in NJ but own a house I am selling in NY. We have been in closing since mid November and we are going into o...

If you have rehabbed a house, you most likely updated the outlets covers to give that fresh clean look.  If you are like me, you replaced the outlet and the cover.  I randomly stumbled upon this article that is a game...

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This is the first time anything like this has happened to us. Our management company quoted about 1k in damages. We do have insurance and clauses in the lease the tenant needs to pay for damages. What...

Hello to all,I had to send a contractor to waterproof the basement of my rental unit. The contractor did some concrete stains on the tenant's rug.The tenant is asking me to refund her the rug. As the contractor is wil...

Situation is this: tenant informs me that the door to the walkout basement (currently unfinished/storage) is open, but that nothing seems to be missing/damaged. Hypothesis: the wind blew it open. I tell him to just cl...

I am buying my first rental which is a single family home in Memphis and was reading it’s near a fault line. I talked to a few insurance agents and have received mixed messages on if earth quake coverage is actually n...

Previous tenant occupied the home for two years with no furnace problems. New tenant moved in two months ago. Last week they called to report the furnace wasn't running. I send someone to check it. Long story short, t...