Account Closed
Is 20% down the single best option with investment?
My husband and I keep arguing about one point and we are putting this out for bigger pocket users to decide on.He says that when looking at a property as a potential investment the only way to go about it is to put 20...
Christine Swaidan
Would you raise the rent?
Tenants have been in place for 7 years and for the most part have been good with regard to paying and following rules. I raised the rent one year ago by $100. (First increase.) Still below market but it's a big place ...
John Arendsen
Investing in Marijuana dispensary properties and related biz's?
I know I might be opening up a real can of something on this thread but I need to get some advice from some commercial RE investors if possible. I recently ran across a rather unique biz op. I have a client that's bee...
Aubrey Page
Addressing Marijuana Smell Complaints
We have a new-to-us class c quadplex in Avondale in Cincinnati. Tenant A moved in 1 Feb. Tenant B moved in 5 Mar. Tenant C moved in 7 Apr. Tenant C reported on Apr 10 that she smelled marijuana so strongly when she w...
Christian Malesic
Congress - Get Out of Our House
You owe it to yourself to check this out and see if the concept matches your beliefs.
A Dell, then Google executive has started this movement to get rid of corruption in DC. His plan is to turn t...
Mike R.
service animals of a tenant's guest
Still trying to understand what we have to do to accommodate a service animal, but long story short, we have a tenant (the only person listed on the lease) that we have noticed the smell of dog and cat when our lease...
Tom De Napoli
How is the COVID-19 Crisis Impacting Retail Real Estate?
Bigger Pockets Community,
Before the COVID-19 crisis, my investing partner and I were analyzing deals for neighborhood strip centers in our home region. What a difference a month (or three) makes. Over the past sev...
Luke H.
How to avoid A/C emergency issues
Hi,I live in Texas and it gets HOT here... I have yearly maintenance done on all A/C units to ensure they are working properly. When an A/C unit stops working tenants will make this an urgent emergency. My A/C guy i...
Ingrid Nagy
Some battles in landlording
We see a lot of posts related to leasing, screening tenants, increasing cash flows, analyzing investments, etc. - the positives of rental real estate. Sometimes we encounter situations or the unexpected that we have ...
David Richmond
Opinions on debt in a rental properties
If you can pay off the mortgage on your first rental property should you? And is it a viable strategy to then use a HELOC on the (now paid off) rental to buy a second? I ask this because my wife and I dislike debt but...