Kate Stoltzfus
Neighbors tree looming over our property
There is a very large, old, looming tree that is in a neighbor's yard that is leaning over one of our properties. We purchased the house at a great discount because another tree had fallen in the backyard and totally ...
Sheena Drake
?writing off expense (rent) for staying in own STR
If you purchase a STR and inhabit it to do repairs, are you able to write off the "rent" that would otherwise have been collected from guests? I know as a vacation home you are expected to dwell within the resident f...
Jeremiah Hight
Acquiring first property
I'm having a hard time deciding which financing option I should pursue for my first property. My plan for the first property is to buy something inhabitable that could be rehabbed and/or updated. It would be my place ...
Brenda Whittaker
Tenant Disaster, How Do I Find Them
HEY ALL! Brenda here, I am looking for any information on how to find a tenant after he has vanished from a rental with severe damage. For the $6000 that it's going to cost to get it inhabitable again, I would like ...
Susan H.
College students, multiple adults = multiple applications?
My rental is within a mile of the university, and I previously had students apply with no income but statements that parents would pay. (This is common in this town.) I didn't have to address that issue then because t...
Armand Arellano
Buyer Suing Assignor & Sellers Los Angeles
My very first assignment, in October 2018. Seller wanted to sell property with tenants already. Seller's wife had a retraining order with him the Seller. Tenants were Wife's friend, due to the retraining order seller ...
Jonathan Perez
Forcing a tenant out!!!!
So we had to get the tenant, on the side that I needed to move into evicted.
They were supposed to be out by tomorrow. My PM is saying that I would have to pay a set out fee which is having 4 able bodied men to actu...
Kelly Flatt
Owner financed land contract with partial/late payments
Long story short- inherited an owner financed land contract. Long distance management. Previous owner was a sweet little old lady who allowed people to "just pay what you can when you can", with the thought that inter...
Brian Mehrhoff
Modifying an MLS to get more favorable loan.
I am looking at a 5 plex that is for sale. It has one unit that is livable the other 4 need to be gutted. Currently 2 units downstairs have no windows in the bedrooms. (These are 2 bed 1 bath units). So my thought is ...
Roy N.
Canadian Mainstream media now reporting on rent afforabability
The national broadcaster as awoken to realize that rising housing costs eventually mean higher rents:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/affordable-housing...