Jordan F.
Guarantor, deceased tenant, non-paying illegal roommate
Hello BP. I have an apartment where the tenant of record died in July of 2021 but her unauthorized roommate continues to live there without paying rent. The original tenant's credit was bad so her mother signed as a...
Allison Hodges
Student Housing Units
After years of using a property management company, I'm looking to self manage two 4 bedroom/2 bath student housing condos I own in a college town.
Three Questions: Is it better to have 4 separate lease agreements (...
Andrew Beaver
Loans with income limits
Question...
I'm looking to get a mass housing loan which allows me to owner occupy a multi unit property up to 600k in the area that I'm looking (rough estimate). Issue is that I'm looking to purchase a property with...
Bryan Igboke
Househacking Single Family Utilities Methods
Hello BiggerPockets Family!I am a new real estate investor in California looking to do my first deal in the next year. My goal is to househack a single family home by finding one with a guest house and living in that ...
Dan Krupa
HOA insurance coverage. What works the best?
Hi all,
Have a 36 unit, 5 buildings, townhouse complex I am looking to get insured. The HOA is seeking studs out insurance. The HOA is required to insure and maintain common areas, roofs, exterior walls, etc... Insur...
AJ Cerbo
Multiple Tenants on Same Lease
Looking to lease out my property and for the first time dealing with a group of 3 friends who are interested in leasing together. Individually, they can't qualify with income, but as a group, they're well above my req...
Polina Goncharova
Meeting my tenants - first time landlord!
Hi BP Folks,One year since I started on BP, I've finally purchased my first Buy and Hold in Chicago Pilsen area. It's a 3 flat and is fully rented, due to my FHA loan guidelines, I will be moving in once one of the le...
Marina Wong
Portfolio loan vs. home equity
I have a 2 condos in my investment portfolio and I am acquiring another one. These have no mortgages. At this point I am thinking of either get a portfolio loan on them or take out more from my home equity. Just fr...
Mike Young
Multiple insurance policies
So I'm up to 7 individual insurance policies. All with different due dates and amounts due. It seems like I'm spending a lot of time checking/paying/getting alerts for all these individual policies. Is there an easier...
Drew Eldridge
Yellow Letter Marketing for Apartments
Has anyone experimented with direct mail to Multi-family apartment owners as to which has a better response rate: typical yellow letter simple postcards or more formal appearing letters? And response rates to mailers...