Martin L.
Offline deal questions
I have heard that offline deals are usually better due to less competition.I wonder how those deals exist. Specifically I would like to know:a/ If seller can get more by putting deals online and attracting more offers...
Kenneth Garrett
Experience in Adding Coin Laundry
Just added a coin washer and dryer in a 4 unit building. Thought we would assign days for tenants to use to avoid conflicts. Any one have any experience with this?
Evie Pylant
Oakland Rent Control Tenant Illegal subletting Eviction?
Hi! I own a rent controlled Duplex In Oakland, and after a year I am finally in the process of moving into one of the units. During this moving prep process I’ve been by a lot and it appears my actual tenant must have...
Fran Flanagan
Dealing with Punitive Local Ordinances
The local borough where I own my rental property has come up with a real doozy of a new ordinance to go into effect this January. I'm fairly sure that they wanted a new law to deal with a few problem properties, prob...
Tom Burton
Tenants will not clean up apartment for showing
My current tenants lease is coming due at the end of this month, and I am currently seeking new tenants. I have told my tenants that instead of having potential tent and physically see the property that I will do a on...
Brian Horwitz
Problem Neighbor- loud at 3 am
Hi BP,I have a very nice rental house in a not so great neighborhood in Indiana that had a great tenant. The tenant (2 adults and 3 young kids) moved out because "they couldn't stand the neighbors". I found another gr...
Timothy Munger
Managing your own units emergency contacts
Do you all have an emergency contact while you are sleeping? I am assuming in the lease that you put that the renter is required to contact a designated plumbing etc service if a situation is happening during overnigh...
Byron W.
Does your property manager do quarterly or annual inspections?
I'm considering hiring a property manager. And so far, everything the company I'm considering going with sounds good, except they don't do any walkthroughs of the property annually or anytime for that matter. Which is...
Christine Chang
Second Hand Smoking Nightmare :(
Hi Everyone, I need advice about next steps. I live in a PUD (an association of private homes) but we have an HOA that regulates us on many different things, including what we can do in our own garage (my husband chan...
Gary Langlais
Noise Monitoring Devices
Need one for outdoors. Not worried about any of the other features. Looking at Minut and NoiseAware.
Has anyone used either? What have your experiences been?
thanks!!