Hi Everyone!  We use our property as a vacation rental.  We had people there for 2 months that smoked in the house.  We found the evidence in the trash.  They denied smoking in the house and do not want to pay the cos...

How do you handle a fraudulent service animal claim?The tenant submitted a "prescription" letter for an emotional support animal through petscreening.com. When petscreening.com contacted the service provider to confir...

I am interested in buying a house that was foreclosed on by the bank. Either the former owner or a tenant is still living in the house. The bank says that I would have to do the eviction if I purchase the house. If th...

Hello,I'm new to buying investment properties.  My wife and I currently own our home and have two bids recently accepted for properties we plan to use as rentals.  My question  though is about Self-Directed IRA.  Can ...

Hi BP!I'd like some advice on a recent situation regarding some new tenants.  We recently showed one of our apartments to a young couple who said that they were looking on behalf of the guy's mother who was moving out...

I am a Boston-based real estate investor looking to start purchasing investment properties (condos and SF) in Tampa. After getting quotes from multiple property management firms in Tampa, prices are way more expensive...

Hello bigger pockets,I have a tenant who has filed a complaint against me for repairs.  I gave them a 24-hr notice to enter for necessary repairs.  When my handyman and myself arrived they pretended to not be home.  T...

So I came to an agreement with my first tenants I've had since purchasing a duplex one year ago that they would leave 2.5 months earlier than their lease expired.Too many problems to list but were basically too rude/l...

Our lease does not have a clause in it for when a tenant would want to break the lease early. I don't know how this slipped through the cracks. Has anyone been in this situation before? The background story. We rent a...

I have two approved applicants for my property and i have required a double security deposit (two month's rent, totaling $3,800.00) due to lack of rental history and one of them having some delinquent credit history. ...