I'm exceedingly excited to join this community and learn all I can. Unfortunately, I find myself already a bit overwhelmed. My initial goal is to learn what I can in order to set the ground work for making my first in...

I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...

I just got my first contract signed.  I was informed from another wholesaler that I should not have turned in my EMD to any title company cause if the deal fails I could be charged up to $2000 by title companies for t...

Has anyone heard of Tenant Cloud? Its a way of collecting rent from tenants for free. If you have please share your experience using it :) 

“Conservative underwriting is dead.”
Rob Beardsley brings up a great point. It’s extremely difficult to be an active real estate investor in this market if you are using extremely conservative underwriting technique...

Hello,Detroit! Good, bad, or ugly for buy and hold rental property? I'd love to hear your story. I'm researching markets for my first investment and I obviously want to go where the math makes sense. If you are a Detr...

A tenant who has just moved into a property I was using once a week for 2-3 days at a time had told me last week that they had a problem with the fridge. The wife told me she had cleaned under and it looked like it wa...

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I realize this article is from a Utah paper and has a Utah slant, BUT read through the article. Actual # of homes in foreclosure jeopardy is expected to go from 2...

I made an offer of 130k on a duplex that was listed for 200k, it was approved by the seller and we began escrow.  However, the appraisal came back at 136k, I'm wondering what I'm missing here? My intension is to use t...

Closing at the end of the month on my first rental property. It's a duplex and wondering if I should encourage tenants to set up payment online. Was looking at sparkrent.com, it is only $1 per unit/month.

Has...