Ash Townsend
10% increase so chronic late-paying renters will move California
Hello,One of my tenants has paid the rent late seven out of eight months (including the rent for August) this year. Typically, they pay less than half to half the rent around the 8th or 9th of the month (which is alre...
Brandon H.
Looking for tax person accountant in Texas (Beaumont / Houston)
The CPA I've been using is no longer able to prepare taxes due to chronic health problems. I'm now in the market for a new tax preparer or CPA. I need someone who specializes in preparing taxes for real estate investo...
Alan G.
Tenant Non renewals
I’m curious as to how many non renewal letters a year you send to PAYING tenants and for what reasons. (Loud or noisy, rude behavior to others, etc). How many units are you managing?I own and manage 70 properties with...
Zachary Brown
CERA Payments for Detroit Tenants
Are there any landlords in Detroit still getting CERA payments for non paying tenants? I am trying to evict, but right now I am waiting for CERA and it is delaying a lot. Any insight into this process would be much ap...
Marian Freshour
Best way to inform tenant that you are not renewing their lease?
I have a tenant that is chronically late on her rent payments. Often she will send in a check and 10 days later I will receive information that there are Non-Sufficent funds in the account. The check will bounce mul...
Lisa Carpenter
Minimum 3x income - before of after taxes
Should a potential tenants minimum income be 3x the rent, before or after taxes?
Alex P.
Online rent payment services... which ones add late fees?
Hello, I am new to BP but I spend a lot of time here... I have been looking at many of the online rent payment services but have not found one that offers all the features I want. Primarily, I would like to have the s...
Nitin Shrawagi
Foundation issue due to water leak
We have a rental property in SanAntonio suburbs and the foundation is sinking. Its very possible that the foundation shift happened due to water leak under the toilet seat - and our insurance covers (should) that sc...
Chuy Gonzalez
To Tile or not To Tile
I have a 2 bed that rents for $1200 a month. I just evicted a chronic late payer. There is carpet everywhere except the kitchen and bath. Carpet lasts me maybe 2, maybe 3 years. The carpet in the dining and living roo...
Patricia Mclean
Behind in payments but still wants to sell!!
Hi BP, I have a owner who wants out of her house. And I really want to help her have peace about this. She is behind on payments and I asked if she would be willing to do a loan modification. She said yes. I would lik...