Robert Andersen
How do you find good tenants in Chicago?
Recently posted a 3 bedroom completely renovated apartment on Zillow, Craigslist, Domu and Apartments.com. The apartment is in a good area of Chicago.I've gotten nothing but awful applicants despite being very clear i...
Krystle Padilla
Hello from San Diego!
Hi all,My name is Krystle, I'm a real estate newbie with absolutely no real estate assets: no house, no condo, no anything. In a matter of fact, my husband and I are renters. However, my husband and I are active duty ...
Joshua Dorkin
New Concrete patio problems - any feedback?
Hey guys -
I need your help. I just spent a fair amount of money to demolish and rebuild a patio in my back yard. My contractor poured it while it was raining and then covered part of the patio with plastic sheetin...
Lance Queen
House flip not selling
I have a recent flip that has been a been on the market for just over two months. When I listed it I had an offer in the first week which I accepted. Two weeks later it fell out of contract due to financing issues on ...
Patrick Philip
Starting my first rehab tomorrow
I'm starting the rehab on my first rehab project tomorrow. I closed on the 15th.I will post pictures in a little bit, I just don't have them with me right now. I have handymen doing most of the work. I will be watchin...
Andreas Mueller
Interest rates Higher for Longer? Good.
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Frank Adams
Colorado get-together
A few months ago someone had a thread about trying to get together some Colorado front range folks from BP. I know Joshua is in Denver and I've seen other posters from Denver up to Ft. Collins.
I'm going to be in Col...
Levi T.
Why you need an LLC on your properties.
I've been in this business for years and years, hundreds of units and untold thousands of tenants later, someone finally filed a lawsuit against us for their deposit not being returned.The story is the tenant was inhe...
Andrew Bjorklund
Inherited tenant that needs to go
My wife and I are buying our first multi-family home and expect to close soon (yay!). We will be house-hacking a tri-plex. One unit is empty that we will live in and the other two units have long time tenants. Both te...
Christine Mwai
Increasing rent...
Hi all,Please give me any on all thoughts on the best way to approach or inform tenants about a rent increase. The house is currently rented under market.......I did increase rent with the last lease...by 6 percent.Th...