Hi,I have a question specific to Massachusetts law. I just renewed lease for my tenants and with increased rent, I asked them for difference in security deposit. Per Massachusetts law landlords are allowed to take 1 m...

In Maryland - Our tenant decided to touch up several walls with the wrong color paint. The paint job was a year old. It looks like she pulled the bathroom paint which was slightly a different color and touched up th...

Tenant vacated the unit, Did notice a couple of broken tiles in the Kitchen, The tenant is agree to pay upto $250 for fixing the broken tiles. Now the issue is the tiles that i bought about four years from HD is disco...

I know this topic has been thoroughly discussed on BP, but I wanted to clarify a few things with the more experienced.Here are the facts:We're getting ready to close on a 4-plex, currently all units are occupied. The ...

I've read and listened to several stories of landlords just forgoing the traditional security deposit altogether. They claim the hassle and potential legal troubles are just not worth it to them. As a new landlord, th...

Hi All,I am currently managing and automating my daily vacation rental tasks through Airtable, which I have connected to a number of online softwares through their API's (Gmail for emails, Twilio for SMS's, Slack for ...

Am I stupid to consider pausing my stocks/401k (my company does NOT match) investing and throw that extra capital at real estate?
Right now I can get to 10x OOS TK (SFH) properties in 5 years while investing in stoc...

Hello All,My first tenant moved out this week and upon final inspection of my house there is a burn on my kitchen counter top.  See pics.  Any suggestion on how to repair this?  Or is replacing the counter top the onl...

Hello all, I did look through some previous posts on similar topics and lean towards NOT allowing this but our situation is a little different then I've seen. Our downstairs unit (duplex) pays for pretty much all of P...

I received my 1099 misc from my property management company and they did a few things that don't seem right. First under Other Income (box 3) they listed Security deposit (refundable), pet deposit (non-refundable) and...