How many properties does a person need to hold to justificy 750 hours? For example if you own a two family house and rent both units it would be hard to justify that you worked 750 hours to maintain this. IRS does not...

Hey everyone in the BP community, First and foremost I want to start by saying I have zero experience in real estate or any form of business ventures. I do however have an increasingly growing interest in it. Finally ...

Hey everyone, new to the community. I'm young, but got a bit of a late start to the credit game. I just got my first credit card almost a year ago and my first auto loan about 5 months ago. I've been doing well at pay...

I have a Nest thermostat in my short term rental cabin in North Georgia. I have not put any restrictions on it right now but in my house manual, I ask that the guest turn it to the AWAY setting when they leave and als...

Let’s deep dive on this, I really want to hear both sides of this. Let’s keep it positive and may this be a start of a conversation. What is the morality of owning a mobile home park, specifically to those of a lower ...

Hi BP! I'm leaving the REIT where I did accounting and short-term leasing for retail shopping centers and heading to a property management software company where I'll be doing sales. Wages are likely to be 60% salary,...

My lease states that it goes month to month at end of the one year term.

My experience so far has been that tenants want a new one year lease, rather than month to month, because they're afraid of being told to leave...

I'm new to the STR game with 2 rentals, and they've gotten to where they are requiring a fair amount of input.  One is in our front yard, the other is about 45 minutes away.  I'm a firefighter, and can generally handl...

I am wondering in what order do you screen your tenants?My general thoughts are this: 1.) Get my ads out on CL, doorstep, etc.. 2.) Organize and Host an open house. 3.) Collect applications from those who attend the o...

Just musing ahead 10 years or so.With states now mandating the phase out of Gas/Deisel cars  How are MF owners going to attract and keep tenants that will now have EV's in the next 10 to 20 years ? Of course home owne...