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All, allow me to be blunt and straight to the point (and in your face) for a sec...
I see so many of you following others blindly (please don't do that). It is time to start thinking and use your own logic.
I wi...
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Short story for context.
Duplex, up/down. Upstairs tenant does has not paid rent since I purchased home in Feb. Started the eviction process in March, and due to covid the eviction date was pushed to July 8th (yay ...
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I am rehabilitating an apartment and it has fleas. The prior tenant had 4 cats so I have had to rip out most of the floor. In the past, in a different apartment, I hired an exterminator to address the fleas issue. ...
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I tried searching the forums for this topic and could not find one, so apologies if this has been asked before and I did not see it....
I have a tenant who wants to pay for an energy audit (Includes installat...
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The majority of the real estate holdings I have are single family homes. We have one duplex that periodically makes us scratch our heads when trying to rent it. Case in point. This weekend my wife showed the open u...
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Hi,
Just closed on a single family house in San Jose on a trustee sale. The owner was smoking inside the house so there a very strong odor. I have to take out everything anyway (carpet, kitchen, flooring, bathrooms e...
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I recently was replacing vinyl blinds at a property and noticed within hours of putting them up, they seemed off colored and splotchy. Thinking it was just the specific blinds I bought, I returned them and purchased d...
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TLDR; What are the "Rules of Thumb" for STR acquisitions? In long-term rentals, there are plenty of rules of thumb that help you quickly decide if a listed property is worth pursuing. 2% rule, positive cap rate spread...
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I'm looking for recommendations for hard money lenders that operate in Ohio and will work with a credit score below 600. 25%+ downpayment will not be a problem, but I don't think I could make ~50% make sense. Fwiw, cr...
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My spouse and I own around 10 properties in our area. One is a property he purchased before we met. It was rented to the same renter for 11 years with a manager taking care of the property. The renter recently moved o...