Chris B.
ESA exemption option for small landlords
In a prior post from about 2 months ago, Kerry Malarkey and Nathan Gesner mentioned a small landlord is exempt from FHA requirements requiring the acceptance of emotional support & assistance animals if one of the...
Ryan Tessier
Real Estate Investors, what’s your day job?
For those of you that have them, what are your day job? Does it help with your investing at all? Do you have an exit strategy?I’ve been working as an electrician the last 4 years, the pay is good but the job is demand...
Adrian Brown
Single Member LLC with both spouses
I understand that me and my wife can both be on our Texas LLC, and we can still file as a Single Member LLC so that we have a disregarded entity from a tax perspective, but we still have the liability protection. In f...
Erin P.
Brand New in Salt Lake City (but relocating in early 2018)
Hi there! I've been lurking on the BP website for about a month now and am really excited about the possibilities of REI. Here's a little about me: I'm 49, and starting to feel real stress about retirement, and whethe...
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Creative ways to make extra cash off rentals
Hi everybody
I was wondering if anybody has any out of the box ideas for creating a little extra cash flow out of your rentals. For example, the apartment i just leased was a one year deal (only did it because I don...
Christina Berry
Service Dogs
Has anyone dealt with a certified service dog situation in a non-pet property? I have a potential tenant coming to look at an apartment that typically does not allow pets. I know there are a lot of laws protecting ser...
Ryan M.
Preparing taxes for future investor
So I have not begun investing yet, but hope to as soon as possible.I hear from a lot of investors that they buy their first property, and then have trouble securing loans for the next 2 years, because they cannot coun...
Brad Davis
Landlord's opting out of Section 8 Program
Below is a link from our newspaper in Cincinnati about a greater number of properties are not qualifying for section 8 vouchers and landlords are not make repairs to pass inspections. To me the piece lacked the landlo...
Jackson Madonna
Short-Term Rental Expenses & Management
I wanted to know the differences or extra costs involved in converting a multifamily building into a STR. I was wondering why the STR numbers on the property I am currently looking at are so much better than the LTR n...
Robert Shoffner
"Service Animals" Or are they really pets?
I have run into a tenant that had decided to take a very legalistic approach with me following a request for access to the property. A few days later I followed with a proper notice of intent to inspect the property....