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Who is responsible for the cost of replacing the refrigerator damaged when the power was cut off to a rented condo.Our tenant reported that the power to her unit was cut off at an unsecured switch next to the meter wh...
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I feel like I already know the answer to this, but would love ya'lls input, thoughts and encouragement, regardless: We've inherited tenants in a triplex all of whom were on M2M. Immediately we evicted the upstairs uni...
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I didn’t smoke or vape when I rented from my landlord who has a no smoking policy for his units and property. No problem, I go out to the city owned sidewalk and sit on the curb, off property. I always pick up my butt...
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Hi all,I spent the past 6 months building and decorating an AirBnB apartment in my basement, and the third guests smoked meth in the unit. :/ It is a long story of how we figured it out, but essentially bags over th...
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Long story short: Should I bother taking a nightmare previous tenant to court for $1500? I looked at the pro se small claims court website in my area - which is 45 minutes away, and it says that ALL cases are referr...
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Hi, I have my eye on a fire damaged house going for 75k in an area that comps for 200k. The numbers look good but I have never dealt with a fire house. Walls and structure look good but the entire roof will need to be...
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So I have a 2 part question. We have evicted some tenants due to them not paying their rent. We sent them a 3 day to pay or quit and they moved. However, we were in the facility (dealing with a so called mice probl...
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So I just got off the phone with a prominent broker in the Orlando market. She mentioned that there is a lack of SFH inventory right now because the banks are holding back on foreclosures. She also mentioned that wh...
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I'm new to the rental business. How do you all handle pets and smokers? Allow or Not? If not, how do you ensure rules are abided by? What would be the penalties if you found they weren't abiding by the rules? If ...