I know most of you seasoned landlords probably despise showings but I have my first one tomorrow and I'm pretty excited. After posting an ad on Postlets I have scheduled 10 people to come see the house. I am doing...

I have a tenant applicant for my duplex unit that informed me that he is a registered sex offender. He says it is of the lesser variety 7 yrs. ago and it will be off his record after 10 yrs. I am not very up to date o...

A section 8 tenant has two family members living in the house for the past 1.5 months that are not on the lease. During the day whenever I go by their car is there and I can hear the extra child in the house. How can...

I just recently posted for a vacancy in one of my units. The most contacts I got was from Facebook but I don't think I got one tour from there. 90%+ would send the message and never reply back to me. Sometimes I had t...

Hello BP! As some of you may know, I recently became a landlord over the weekend through my first house-hack. I'm attributing this issue to being new to the game, and not executing my application/screening process as ...

I just bought an out of town duplex (1 1/2 hours away). I’m in the process of advertising and listed in a local Facebook buy sell and trade. I was getting a lot of inquiries and I would say about 90% who don’t even qu...

We have a duplex rented out as student housing on a yearly lease in Philadelphia. Before move in, tenants are required to pay 1st, last months' rent and one month rent as security deposit. Based on contract we have wi...

I'm just beginning the tenant screening process and was wondering about some guidelines. My sense is that you can collect applications from anyone who fits your minimum criteria and then choose the "best" based on inc...

I am starting to receive applications on my first rental property (all digital applications). I need some advise on what exactly I should be looking for to qualify each tenant please.Income: What multiples of the rent...

We no longer rent to smokers but we used to rent to smokers with the condition that they smoke outside.
We have a tenant that is a from the time that we rented to smokers.  They have been good at only smoking outside...