Phillip Austin
Should I Offer Rent By Room Property Management?
Within the last 2 months, I've been approached by numerous investors asking if I do rent by room which I currently do not. As an experienced PM, I'm intimately aware of how challenging "normal" property management can...
Scott E.
Airbnb Guest Refuses to Leave or Pay Rent for 540 Days
In an upscale neighborhood in Brentwood California a guy rented out his guest house on Airbnb.His latest guest has now lived in his guest house for years, she hasn't paid rent in 540 days, and she is saying she will n...
Dawn Anastasi
Example: Hosting an "open house" type rental showing
Sometimes people post on Bigger Pockets about wanting to know "how" to do something ... not theoretically how, but specific examples. So here is an example of how I conduct/host an open house showing for a rental prop...
Andrew Rinne
Landlord breach of contract in Northern California. How do we proceed?
Hello all,
My girlfriend is doing her Master's degree at San Jose State University in the Bay Area of Northern California.
She moved into a house where all the rooms are rented out to different students...
Jessi Martin
Selling your home? There’s a form (or 100) for that!
Didn’t they tell us years ago that we’d be a “paperless society” in the near future? Somebody forgot to tell the real estate industry. There must be a form for every single step in the selling process. In all fairness...
Rob Pene
Rookie New Member: Los Angeles
I have ZERO experience in Real Estate Investing. And JUST started my educational journey in mid-January 2013 when my wife gave birth to our twin girls :) Our family, our future, and our time became a driving force b...
Kiran K.
Tenant headache - rental agency no help
2 years back I rented my townhome to a couple, when I showed the place it was the lady who checked out property and couple with kids moved in. I manage rental myself, I inspect property every 6 months. First 6 to 9 m...
Rod Desinord
$180,000 single family in the worst part of town?!?! Get out of here!!
Yesterday sealed the deal on my suspicion that the housing market is near a correction when a home in a particular area of a city was listed for 180,000!! A year ago that same home was $85,000 sold. And of course it w...
Winn Vu
Neighbor has issue with my tenant
I’m having this tenant that I would want to keep. I self manage. He’s been always paying rent on time and very reasonable to deal with. The lease is going on the 3rd year without any issue until today. My real estate ...
Mark Hu
Why REITs have high P/E ratio?
I am looking at two REITs in SO CA, and I've noticed their price/earnings ratio is rather high. One is BRE, the ratio is 42.94, and the other is essex, their ratio is 69.33. I understand that a more typical ratio woul...