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Does anybody have any advice on Dayton Ohio? Especially the rental market, focusing on 2-4 unit income property. I'm looking at St. Anne's Hill, South Park and Huffman, but also perhaps a little further from downtown,...
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Hi all! First time landlord here. In short, I am in the process of screening a few prospective tenants. The first is self employed with variable income. Gross business income covers well over 3x rent, but the net take...
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Hello! I have been studying real estate/analyzing deals for a few years now and waiting to pull the trigger on my first rental property. Someone asked me the other day what I thought would make the right deal? I cou...
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I would like to require a prequalification in order to show our rental. It seems to me I am wasting both my time and theirs if for instance they do not make enough money to rent this property. Is this reasonable or sh...
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We have our first duplex... Initial leases are up and we have two available units in a month. Scary but exciting! My question is when to do walk through with prospective tenants? Is it after application process or bef...
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So not sure if are application process is the most efficient? I will post are website link on the bottom and if anyone has any suggestions that would be great. So People in are area dont wanna pay a application fee pr...
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I am having trouble navigating to a specific forum.I use the "Browse Forums" drop down menu and a list of forums show up to be selected, and if I hoover my cursor over any of those another level of subforums would be ...
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How can I check the criminal background (including checking for evictions and previous lawsuits they've filed) on potential tenants? Any good website?
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I just had my very first prospective tenant not show up to a showing. Its quite irritating does this happen often?
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How do you guys deal with the problem of potential renters who don't show up? I've had two appointments for this morning and neither of them showed up. So basically I'm just sitting here alone in an empty unit on a be...