Tools you can go without and use regularly?Hello Everyone trying to put together a toolkit for housewarming gift to a friend to reduce maintenance issues. This is more of a survey, give me ideas! (Ex: Garbage disposal...

We will be relocating to Ohio from Florida and are interested in renting our home in Florida. I have talked to several different PM companies in the area and I am now wondering, do I really need a PM company. From wha...

Hi all! I have been a long time lurker and finally just acquired our very first rental property. It's a duplex in South Jersey. While i have tried to take everything i learned from BP I am hoping to leverage your expe...

We have a single floor 1300 sqft house with 6 year old Trane hvac system. Yesterday, Tenant messaged me and stated that the system was not working around 3AM, so we dispatched a AC contractor to check the system that ...

Landlords and Property Managers should stop inspecting occupied rentals.For residents, an inspection feels like a prison shakedown without the cavity search.For owners, negative goodwill with the residents and some ph...

I have a tenant who is suing myself and my property manager for claims of negligence and inhabitability. She has played a clever game of never asking us directly for repairs, bringing in code enforcement to cite me an...

Being a first time landlord inspecting property for the first time raises few glitches and below are those. Need suggestion on how to communicate effectively to tenant by maintaining no law break. Property is located ...

Aside from the obvious, make sure payments are in on time and property is taken care of (which is in lower tenants lease as his responsibility)How often do you guys and gals check up on your properties both inside and...

Hey there! I'm new to bigger pockets, looking to purchase my first rental property in the next few months.

I think most the most common con in rental properties that I hear about it tenants destroying or just not tak...

Our tenant was out of power because we had to replace our breaker box, partly due to a storm recently, it took 3 days due to July 4th weekend nobody was available. We put the tenant in a hotel for 2 nights while we tr...