Danny Duran
Securing your multi-family buildings: property & tenant safety
BP--I'm looking for best practices on safety measures to reduce crime, breaking and entering, etc. What methods have you deployed to protect your property and make your tenants feel safe? Things that come to mind are ...
Maria D'Aura
Qualifying renters - do you look at DTI?
When evaluating tenant applications what minimum requirements do you have?
To qualify for a mortgage debt to income is talked about a lot, but not so much for renters. Do you take that into consideration?
Noah Dunlap
What to do after a tenant's son breaks into a car?
(This situation is currently in progress)Tenant A reached out to let me know that Tenant B's teenage son (next door neighbor) broke into Tenant A's sister's car and stole her keys and wallet and the police are current...
Cedric Van Duyn
Question about Tenant Drug Suspicion
Looking for advice from those with experience: We manage a small multi-family property, and we have a strong suspicion of drug use in one unit. So far, there has been no disturbance to the community, but we want to ge...
M Marie M.
Is it possible to get taxes down?
I live in a city (DC) but I never knew how good I had it until I started looking at Baltimore property taxes. Holy Mole over 2%, whereas in DC it's .8something %. And the assessed value usually is some price that refl...
Kevin McCrossin
Tenant Screening and background check issues
Hello, looking for some advice as a new property manager. I recently bought a duplex and I am in the process of finding a tenant for one of the units. Had a few showing the other day and I fond what I thought was a gr...
Jacob K.
Eviction in AR
I've got a rent house in AR and the tenant is 2 months behind on rent and refusing to leave. The property management company has given them a notice letter and they have not vacated (and said they will not). The pro...
Steve S.
Do you require social security#or drivers license# on application
My standard form asks for this information, but on more than one occasion, i've been asked by prospective tenants if they have to provide it before they are selected in the event they provide it and then later are rej...
Nick M.
Background check without social security number
Hi all,I have a property in an area that has a fairly large immigrant population. Many don't have a social security number but they do have a passport. Does anyone have a recommended approach to doing a background c...
Adam York
Creative ideas for increasing security on property
Hey everyone,I manage 12 lofts in a downtown area in KC and we've been having some security issues lately, including muggings and attempted theft. The layout of our site is unfortunately very attractive to criminals. ...