OMG! Help! My parents' have had a rental property in northern Michigan for decades. I came to visit July 2 and I'm stuck here. I need to get rid of a squatter for them before I can drive back south to Texas. This stor...

BiggerPockets! I work at BP and I'm working on building a landing page for Tennessee and the cities of Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis. Would anyone be willing to share why you choose to invest in any of these cit...

For most of my adult life, I was a renter and I noticed sometimes landlords would do some sort of "maintenance inspection" once a year, sometimes multiple times a year and sometimes, never.  As a new landlord in Cleve...

Hello, Frequent visitor to this forum to learn about landlord for the last few years and have a few rental properties in DFW area. However, this time I need some feedback from other landlord. I understand that landlor...

As I've been thinking about how much to set aside for CapEx/maintenance expenses, I keep coming back to the questions of: "How much should I really be spending on X?" It isn't a matter of questioning the percentage of...

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Washington state is has banned smoking in public places. Now we have a large county attempting to ban smoking in private residences. While, I'm sure that smoking is bad for ones health. There are many other things ...

As obvious as it may seem, REMEMBER TO SLEEP! As real estate investors we tend to go 100%, 100% of the time. You have to remember to take some time for rest. One thing that I have tried the last 6 months is writing ev...