I am in the process of screening a potential tenant, he told me he had a felony from 15 years, he offered to explain but I didn't wanna push unless necessary. After doing a background check on him I found out he is re...

So Dec. 2015 I started my real estate adventure. I'm a huge numbers guy so I love my spreadsheets and planning my financial future. Thus based on a 20% down per property mindset, I tried to gauge what I could realisti...

So, I was listening to the BP podcast and the subject of how to do background checks on your renters came up. I was wondering, how exactly would or should you turn down a tenant that has bad rental history so to avoid...

What a nightmare these HOAs are. Mine just empowered themselves to fine homeowners. They even recorded in their minutes that during a "vote" for fines....a no vote will be counted as a yes! You can't make this stuff u...

I'm in the process of negotiating to purchase a home that is occupied by a very elderly schizophrenic tenant who, according to the seller, has not paid rent or been on a lease in nearly ten years.  What should I do to...

Again, not super cleaned up. Copied and Pasted off of my notes on my iPad. Enjoy!Dave Ramsey Money Makeover Chapter 1: Total Money ChallengeChapter 2 DenialFrog in Warming Water example - If a frog jumps into a BOILIN...

Im in the middle of this on right now. First off the tenant was 2 months behind on rent and I was starting eviction when I went past and they had moved out in the middle of the night. When I went in the carpet were to...

I am located in Oregon, first time landlord. Our open house is tomorrow and someone has already mentioned they have Section 8 vouchers. My understanding is that it is an opt-in program? But that conflicts with the fac...