Brad Gibson
Avoiding Significant Damages to Rental Units
I'm a pretty experienced landlord that has been at this for 6 years. Just acquired my 29th and 30th doors, but of late I've been having trouble with BIG bills to turn units when tenants move out. I usually charge 1x...
S. Perry
Walk me through a maintenance check/rental inspection
I need some guidance involving what to do for a maintenance check. Tenants have been in the home for 1 year (2 yr lease). We have been in the home on a few occasions for various issues but have never done a specific c...
Jason Lecker
Cash-out Refi in Charlotte?
Hello everyone, I'm a new investor in the Charlotte area. I have three properties--two rented, one being rehabbed--and I'm exploring ways to build up my real estate portfolio. One of the methods that's been most attra...
Edward Agadjanian
Is this newbie using the rental property calculator wrong?
Okay, so I've looked at 3 properties right now in the Salt Lake City area. All of them have produced a negative CoC ROI of about -5 to about -9% on the rental property calculator here. Am I doing something wrong? Mayb...
Ben Relph
Rent Talk
I recently read Mike Butler's book Landlording on AutoPilot. One of the things that is in his book is setting up a "rent talk" with new tenants before they move in. In this talk you discuss your expectations and wor...
Stan Furman
Tenant despises owner after late payment eviction
Repeated texts to this tenant re: late rent got exceedingly frustrating. Tenant was warned of consequences and he texted "see you in court". He WILL lose.
But, now he's got a job and is paid up. Won't ...
Mark Rogers
First flip went well and hit our goal with 3 days to spare
My wife and I closed on the sale of our first flip this afternoon and are pleased with our first effort. We bought a 3/2 sfr at a courthouse auction for about 124,000 on April 11, had to file suit to evict the former...
Terry Dietzler
Reported noise, smoking and illegal activity issues with tenant
Hi all,Situation we've run into and looking to get some good advice from some of the pros here on BP.We manage a property we own where we have a tenant who has been very quiet (read: good tenant) for the 1st 8 mos of ...
Cathy Frankel
How to get my ex tennant to pay the damages?
I have a tenant who just moved out. I did a walk thru inspection with them but it was brief because she was on a break from work. I told her it looked alright except for a few things but I would send her the final sta...
Curt Bixel
Is regular maintenance of HVAC worth it on a rental
The common thought on this seems to be that you should schedule regular maintenance on your HVAC systems in rentals. I wonder if anyone has ever really dug into this to know. I don't really do that and I do get call...