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In your opinion, what will be the best way to protect yourself from tenants damaging your property? What is the best landlord insurance to prevent the damages from being excessive? I'm not a landlord yet, but I am goi...
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Hello BP,I am in the process of buying with my business partner in our first buy and hold. The seller has been super slow on requests to get things and causing delays in closing. We asked them to do fixes on the house...
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A young couple is applying to rent my investment property. One of them asked if their brother could also live there. We don't have a problem with that, but we obviously would like him to be contractually obligated to ...
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House located in Tacoma, WA - motivated seller. He's upside down on it. ARV $216k, Repairs $55k, he owes $185k and he's desperate to get out of it, he divorced his wife in this property and it's sat empty for 1.5 year...
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I allowed a tenant to have pets (3 small dogs), with a pet deposit of $300. He was the first tenant in a newly renovated unit with refinished wood floors. After several visits in which I found feces on the floor, a gr...
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Getting a lot of mid-term requests through AirBNB. Any drawbacks to doing monthly+ rentals through them, instead of through a company like Zillow that includes an application and lease agreement?Do I need a lease for ...
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I currently have 13 properties, 12 free and clear (all rented). I am looking to leverage these for a flip and to for other buy and hold opportunities I have in markets within an hour of where I live. What lending inst...
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This Topic came up on another forum post and It got me to wondering,
As a tenant/Landlord, What is the minimum amount of money you would go to Small claims court for in a monetary dispute? I never really thi...
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What tenant credit/background services are you using in Ontario? I've seen some of the national ones advertising that they check things that can't be checked here in Ontario, so I need a province-specific answer.Do yo...
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Hello Everyone,I'm new to the real estate game, but I've decided that being a full-time landlord is something that I would like to pursue. I've worked W-2 jobs my whole life, but I am now missing out on a great deal o...