Brian Volland
Tenant Qualification Scorecard
tl;dr Soon to be newbie self managing. I'm scared to death of lawfully having to choose a borderline acceptable tenant over a highly qualified one. Made a scorecard to pick most qualified; pick it apart.So as I start ...
Tyler Bobo
Collecting on a tenant who left state?
Tenant left state. I have their address, and they owe me about $2500 after damages and back rent. I'm in Alaska, and will be sending her the security deposit statement tomorrow. If they don't pay I can sue them in ...
Eddie Johns
Landlord not returning the deposit
Hi Guys please help us out here.We rented an apartment on 15sept and paid 2 months deposit to the owner. After 3-4 days we found there were bed bugs in the house and we contacted the owner to do pest control in our ho...
Mark A.
Tenant screening - Subpar credit score...but...
We are thinking about renting our 3 bedroom apartment to a family (2 parents and a 20 year old child). The family just sold their house and received approx $200k from the sale. Seems like they moved out due to finan...
Ashraf Farrag
Thoughts on converting my rental property to a lease option?
I have a fairly steady rental property. It was a former home of mine. I lived in it for 7 years and it has been rented for about 6 years. There still is a mortgage on the property and it has a decent amount of equity ...
Pablo Martinez
(OHIO) Landlord wants to possibly illegally evict us.
We have been dealing with a nightmare landlord. She is extremely rude, constantly bothers us about coming in to just fiddle around multiple times a week(with proper notice), and has been trying like crazy to break our...
Erin Malone
Tenant not moving loan fell through new tenant needs to move in
First off I know I have done everything wrong. My tenant gave notice on the fourth that should be moving out the following month on the 8th. I explained she had to give me a month notice prior to the 1st. I let he...
Zoran Domazet
Did my tenant break their lease?
I have a tenant on a month to month lease and on June 26 I advised the tenant that I would like them to sign a year lease and rent would be increasing effective 8/1. The tenants texted me stating "I will be giving a 3...
Sergio Aguinaga
Lease Agreement Clauses
Hello Everyone,I am new to BiggerPockets and just got my first property and want to have it up on the market in about 2 weeks. It is actually my first rental property and have no prior experience with lease agreements...
John Woodriff
How to define "Occupant"
I seem to have a reoccurring problem with tenants in a basement apartment moving in, and their partner lives with them a majority of the time. How does one define "Occupant"? I use a month to month rental agreement...