Angie B.
Floor painters- please advise
So we just moved our first tenant out of our first rental. (We have three rentals now.) After removing all of the carpet and pad due to odor and stains from smoking and cat pee- I refuse to put carpets back in. ...
Nathan Gesner
Are you sure you want to be a landlord?
This is me sucking water off a renters floor just before midnight. Record rains at 10:30pm for about half an hour. Every street was flowing like a river. Five tenants and five different properties called me to report ...
Jon Huber
Telling my tenants that the apartment smells terrible - in the nicest possible way?
So, this goes back to my first experience of being a landlord. A woman (who ironically was a realtor), was renting my apartment. I allowed her to have a pet, as it was a tiny chihuahua. I was suspecting that she was n...
Fahadbin Alam
Should I allow my tenants to have cats?
So I understand animals can be a big liability in a property, I'm fine with dogs but cat urine is something that I feel may be a big con to my property. Any Advice?
Daria B.
advice on pet pricing (security deposit and pet rent)
Hi all,I'm "considering" renting to someone who has a cat. This going against my strict policy of no pets to forego the rental sitting on the market longer than normal.My PM says that I can charge a SD for the cat and...
Joel S.
Need advice on Terms of a Deal
After searching for a real estate agent in Houston on Biggerpockets I keep getting responses from people from New Western Acquisitions. They are a wholesaling company and my understanding is that they work in Houston ...
Mindy Jensen
What is the WORST thing a tenant has done to your property?
I've heard the horror stories from landlords about how the tenant they were evicting poured cement down the toilet, played hammer darts in every room, ripped out the copper, or left piles of garbage for the landlord t...
Alicia Marks
QOTW: What are your "hard pass" items when evaluating real estate
Welcome to our Question of the Week! We have a lot of people who are entering the world of real estate investment who could use your wisdom. When evaluating a property, what are your automatic no or exclusion list ite...
Roy N.
Reminder of why we have a "No Pet" policy.
I have alluded in other threads on BP the past few weeks that we are saying Good Bye to long term tenants we inherited with a property bought two years ago. We served them with a month ago with a notice of terminati...
Elizabeth O.
This is one reason I would not self manage...
Long story short... My property manager went to show one of my town-homes.
Turns out my tenant decided it was ok to put/punch holes in walls and put his cigarettes out on the carpet in every room. It's a shame beca...