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Hi all,
My long term tenant has asked what I thought about adding a dog to the household. My lease agreement states no pets, certainly I can add an addendum. What are landlords requesting from the tenant if they ap...
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Hey BP, Congress is thinking about passing another stimulus check for the American people. There are two proposals, one outlines 2000/month for each individual and the other stops rent and mortgage cancellation for 1 ...
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I'm fairly new to real estate and have quickly learned that the IRS gives us investors a lot of breaks but it comes at a price. The last few hours have been spent wandering around in a quagmire of IRS Publications tha...
I own rental properties in two states. How does one go about choosing which state to set up an asset protection plan using LLC's? I own four residential rental properties. Two in Southern California, where I current...
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Busy Single mom from Boston. Have $50K cash in hand to invest, and due to my current life requirements was thinking MF buy and hold with the goal of build a retirement portfolio (I can invest 30-50K/quarter so this w...
My tenant acquired a refurbished clothes washer in Jan. 2019. And it is broken now. She hired an appliance repairman not electrician to take a look and the repairmen said it's due to low voltage and damaged the washe...
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Hello, first time homeowner here!Previous owner added bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette to the basement and even rented it out but no permits were pulled.In county data it's just finished basement and no data regardin...
I just purchased my first out of state investment property which is a duplex in NW Arkansas. I wanted to give a go at self-managing the existing tenants until if/when it becomes a burden as Arkansas is a landlord frie...
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Any advice on starting to look for tenants before you have closed on property?Best practices?Start advertising? screening / showing, etc Thanks