Alexandra Hughes Pailet
Tenant is Anti-Glyphosate (Round Up) - Realistic Request?
I recently contracted a landscaping company to do a complete overhaul at my rental. Today, the tenant contacts me unhappy that they were using Round-Up as it contains glyphosate. Trying to reassure her, I sent her lin...
DAn L.
Renting Shed homes
I've been building some tiny homes the size of a shed (using the footprint of a shed, so no permit), and so was wondering if I could rent these out to people, for rental income, and if so, what would be a fair price p...
Karin Crompton
Stat Geek type of question: What's a good list-to-sales price %?
Out of curiosity, I decided tonight to search the "stats" of a local Realtor b/c I wondered how her list price stacks up against the final sales price. By way of a brief background, another investor has brought m...
Jeremy Marek
In what order do you implement your tenant screening?
I am wondering in what order do you screen your tenants?My general thoughts are this: 1.) Get my ads out on CL, doorstep, etc.. 2.) Organize and Host an open house. 3.) Collect applications from those who attend the o...
Brenda Whittaker
Displacing Good Tenants if I Sell
Since out of state investors have infected my area and forced up property tax I can no longer afford to keep my rental. The tenants are very decent hard working great people who love the house but cannot, like most h...
Jill F.
When are you overleveraged?
I'm just curious as to how other people define 'overleveraged'? How much leverage is too much? I would be afraid to have a balloon loan or a one year arm. I would be afraid to use hard money. But I do have a 20 year a...
Myia Ertise
Staging
Selling Homes in the World of Real Estate: Introduction
In order to revive the nearly unprofitable real estate market it is important that more and more homes are staged. This is a simple concept that ens...
Shane Craig
Things people don't tell you about multi-family
I want to start out by saying I love multifamily but I have learn some things about them that I didn't consider with SFH.
Most of these issues have been resolved quickly but still they are pain.
1. Parking is an is...
Robert Freeborn
This isn't a joke listing!
Hi BP Fam! I have a mls drip feed from a great realtor in the WA state area. I got a email yesterday for a 3-plex in Bellingham Washington. I'm going to list out the details below. I will NOT include identifying deta...
Michelle Thomas
My tenant would like the carpet replaced...What should I do?
Hello BP family, Okay, Here's the situation ...My tenant of moved into my townhouse in January of 2017. Since then she has had a long laundry list of replacement request. To make a long story short...The carpet in the...