Tenant lives in a 2bed/1bath apartment. She was given two weeks to clean the place. She removed a lot of stuff, but this is the end result.She is very nice, pays like clockwork, communicates well, and never fusses. Wo...

I am in the process of purchasing a small self-storage facility with existing tenants (no contracts), and everyone seems to pay different amounts for the same size units. Some have been there for 10+ years, and some d...

My tenant's lease was up and when he moved, he left a ton of stuff in the basement and garage, too much for the alley, will cost several hundred to have removed. He told me basically, it's not his stuff and he's not c...

my tenant dies,,,, his place is packed with lots of stuff some valuable stuff most of it is trash, cars motorcycles etc mostly old broken apart vehicles,, contacted the daughter told her the month to month rent is pai...

Hello!I have been lurking on and off since September trying to learn what I can. My husband's mother passed away and left him with a house she was renting to her fiancee's ex-brother in law who was on disability and c...

Greetings BP Self-Storage gurus,I'm a 5 year active multi-family investor and landlord but am closing on my first self-storage in about 30 days.  I picked it up for a song when looking for commercial as my bandwidth m...

Anyone have an idea of what is a typical management fee for self storage facilities?  Looking at a 40k sf building and shopping around for a prop management company.  
Also wanted to get thoughts on whether getting a...

I called a FSBO house in my neighborhood and started talking to this lovely 73 year old lady. As we continued to have our conversation she stated that she also had a 300+ storage unit complex with retail on the same p...

Good evening, everyone.    Last year, I purchased a house for myself with 3 additional rooms to rent.  So far, this has been going very well.  I have two vacancies coming up soon that have me a little worried, but thi...

Hi BP,I am house hacking and have a tenant that just moved in and he is leaving his personal items in the common areas (clothes, golf equipment, etc). I have asked him to move it into his room but not sure it can all ...