I sometimes have to give tenants, what I call an "attitude adjustment".Below is an email that I sent to a tenant.  In her email, she talked about invoicing me for when she had to talk to the utility company.  I sent t...

I’ve got nightmare tenants in my rental property. The septic keeps backing up into the basement shower. It took a month of doing multiple repairs to septic, laterals etc to figure out the problem. We started snaggi...

Hi All!  I am new to BP and getting a crash course on being a landlord.  Please let me know your thoughts!After living in our home for 20 years in NJ, we decided to move to FL and rent out our NJ home last summer.  Th...

On Saturday, 6/29, in the late afternoon, for the second time within two weeks, the sewer trap was backing up....thank God for leak sensors.  Contacted sewer company with whom I have a contract /insurance again.  The ...

I am about to close on a new house that I plan to house-hack while I accrue capital. I have no furniture, no dishes, no linens... nothing but my own clothes and some tools. Does anyone have experience or tips on furni...

I got put into a position today that I wasn’t expecting. I spoke to the daughter of a property owner whom I had lost spoken to about 3 months ago, her mother unfortunately has recently passed and now she wants to sell...

Hello.  I have a couple interested in renting from me that wants to bring on a 17 year old minor, who is not their's, but is "on her own" and a friend of the couples.  Would this even be legal if I wished to entertain...

I just brought a duplex as an owner occupier. Should I have coin laundry for the property? There is a separate enterence to the laundry in the basement. Would this be a good idea? Thanks for reading.

Friday August 20th, 2021 4:45 pm:  A Belleville, Illinois landlord was stabbed to death while collecting rent from a tenant in his apartment building. Residents called the police about a fight in progress and they fou...

Hello everyone! I just learned a harsh lesson regarding landlord/homeowners insurance policies. One of my investment properties had two, separate plumbing issues (wthin 2 years of one another) that we filed claims for...