I recently accepted an application for renters moving in, end of this month. They have not signed the lease or paid the deposit yet. That was supposed to happen by the end of this week but I have not sent them the le...

Just out of curiosity, have any of you changed your requirements for new applicants?
I have heard that some landlords/property owners have been changing their requirements. The general feeling is that they need to ma...

Hello to all the brilliant BP'ers out there, hoping to get some good advice on an uncomfortable (albeit not uncommon) situation. We bought a duplex, decided to gut-remodel and hired a GC to do the job. We signed a con...

This is my first post - hopefully the subject is OK.So it looks like I won a local (Minnesota) HUBZU.COM house auction and will be re-habbing the place.  Hopefully the closing will occur in the next week or two.  Its ...

Hi all. I am wondering what my liability is when someone fell down my roof. Recently it was raining hard. Tenant called me, and I asked another tenant who had repaired roofs for me before. He has no license. He then t...

Me and my partner we're planning on looking to house hack our first property sometime around December.  One of my co-workers mentioned that there might by a decline in the housing market and that we should wait a year...

If you own rentals in Las Vegas/Henderson Nevada, it looks like the area is going to really feel the financial effects of this.It looks like Caesars Palace and the Sahara are laying off workers, and the Wynn is shutti...

So my renter's lease is up. He said that he has a friend who builds wooden decks professionally. He asked if they could build a deck in the backyard. Labor will be free, but he's asking me to pay for the materials. Do...

I understand that the "gold standard" is to ensure every contractor has liability and worker's comp insurance and that I have renovator's insurance on the rehab property.

That being said, what are your thoughts on e...

And So It Begins (once again):In the past couple of weeks:-- Facebook = 11,000 people unemployed (13% of it's employees gone in one day)-- Twitter = 50% of it's people laid off -- Zillow = 5% of its people laid off --...