David Lorenz
Is it legal to limit number of tenants residing in a unit?
Hi BP!I'm in the tenant screening process with my first rental (a duplex in Philly). The bottom unit is a 2 bedroom that's roughly 700ish sq ft. I would prefer to limit the number of tenants in that unit to 2 (1 per b...
Steve Paczesny
would you buy a place next to a halfway house?
Sorry, this is a repost (I realized my original didn't have a descriptive title so I changed the title).....
Ok, so I was supposed to close on a duplex this upcoming Thursday. Today I'm over there outside looking at...
Sawyer Smith
Scariest objects found in a property.
This past week when checking on something in the attic of one of our active rehabs, our handyman gave us a call explaining how he had found some pretty disturbing items. When he had been in there a month prior, the pl...
Julie Williams
Financing a multifamily with empty units
Hello all. I just read an article on commercial financing that said commercial lenders would consider rents in the decision when financing a multi-family if there were leases. I am going on a three-day car trip tomorr...
Michael Butler
Corporate Tenant Using Single Family Home for 8 Employees
Hi!My wife and I are renting out our single family, 3 bed/2.5 bath ($2200/month) home in St Louis, MO in a historic neighborhood (Benton Park) as we move to a new home that we are rehabbing while living in. We are acc...
Austin Hughes
How to Get More People to Complete Application
I've been getting GREAT results from my property marketing lately, but one thing that's been weird is the people who ask us to email them an application are typically not filling it out.We do tell them it's $35 for th...
Account Closed
Halfway House/Residential Treatment Facility Investment
Has anyone heard of investing in residential treatment facilities (group homes)? These facilities would offer services to adults with disabilities like mental retardation or down syndrome. Supposedly, Medicaid reimbur...
Murray Cronia
Advice on Macon Georgia market
Me and a couple of friends had the idea of investing in property in Macon, specifically in close radius to Mercer University. As far as cities around me go, most property is dirt cheap there, but was built in the 1900...
Melissa Crimp
Court Record Search - reason for denying an applicant
Hi. We have a few investment homes in Roanoke, VA for long-term rentals. When screening potential tenants, I've learned that the Zillow application doesn't show much, if anything, and the TransUnion SmartMove isn't pr...
Don Konipol
The 5 Levels of Financial Fraud
In my experience these are the levels of how financial fraud is doneLevel 1 - The “sponsor” is a fraudster from the beginning and the entire investment is a designed fraud designed to steal the investor's money Level ...