I am from San Francisco Bayarea and I own few rentals. I am planning to retire in Austin suburbs in the next 3 to 4 years from my day job.
Austin would not get me enough cash flow. San Antonio seems to be a better pl...

Hi Bigger Pockets - I'm renting out my first property in Los Angeles (Inglewood actually).  It's a SFR that I purchased last year, moved into, and renovated that's now ready for the rental market.  I've been a landlor...

For making rent payment, tenant prefers to use Paypal with a business transfer (and not a person to person) option and Paypal charges a fee for that. To avoid that I suggested that they can make rent payments through ...

Hello! I rented out my house for one year and definitely had a lot of learnings with managing the property on my own.One of the after-effects of the tenant moving out of the house was that her gas bill was not paid fo...

Hi everyone,
My wife and I are in the process on closing our first property. It is a duplex outside of the Charlotte, NC (Kannapolis). I had a few questions if you all wouldn't mind giving us some tips.
We want to f...

Virginia;MilitaryBackground StoryI bought a duplex in November 2016 in Virginia but after I bought the property I hired a PM because I had to move to Mississippi for 9months and I had nobody in VA to overlook the pr...

I'm attempting to improve the systems in place at the company I work for and I'd love some suggestions about various things such as:
Accepting electronic payments (we only accept checks!)?Sending rent bills by email?...

We're choosing between Appfolio, Buildium, Rentec & Yardi. Any advice on which one to choose?
Many of our tenants need to have the option to pay with cash or money order, so we chose the 4 companies above because...

I bought a quad in Rye last year and it’s been reasonably smooth sailing until about last week. In my lease I have it that tenant pays ALL utilities; I have the water metered so I have to charge back the tenants every...

I have tenants that are currently in a 1 year lease that expires in July.  They have approached me to ask if there friend can live with them until their lease is up.  I (landlord) pay for water, garbage, sewer for uti...