J. Nicci Coffie
How to Create a New Lease When Renewing a Long-term Tenant
My tenants have been in place since 2019, and so far, I have been renewing and updating the lease with a 1-page Lease Amendment-Renewal Agreement stating the new term and increased rent amount. For their upcoming ren...
Andy Mirza
Advancing Property Taxes for NPNs
What are investors attitudes and processes when deciding on advancing property taxes?
Big banks advance property taxes on every asset (unless it falls through the cracks for some reason). Much simpler that way since ...
Gene Bor
Can I use security deposit to clean up/restore the yard
Hi all, I have a SFH in King County, Washington not in Seattle. I am not renewing on the tenant who should move out soon. Among the other things the tenant did not do the yard work for at least six month to a year and...
Ben C
Tenant Smoking
My neighbor saw tanents smoking inside of garage with door half closed. don't know what exactly they smoking. all of them said they don't smoke in the application,but I don't have a non-smoking policy in the lease(les...
Tamir Hodorov
recommended neighborhoods for investment? up to 120K flip or rent
Hi guys, I'm new here. I wanted to ask whether any of you can recommended on neighborhoods for investment? My budget is 120K and I will either flip or rent.Section 8 is also relevant, or any better strategy you may re...
Bill Graham
Accepting money after Eviction Notice, NH
I collect weekly for my low income tenants. Most of them seem to appreciate it. I have one who has been with me a long time now. Always a little late, always gets caught up. That is until the roommate moved out. This ...
Dustin DuFault
Handling Tenant Caused AC Damage / Cleaning
Good Evening BP!I wanted to get some other folks' opinions on handling an issue I had this week with a tenant clogging their air handler with debris and the associated repair expenses.This was a new tenant in Septembe...
Corby Goade
Creative (ie; inexpensive) landscape maintenance solutions?
in my area, landscapers charge a minimum of $100 per month to mow a lawn. I have skirted this by telling my tenants that in order to keep rent down, I ask that they mow the lawn and I provide them with a mower if need...
Lyndsey Keller
Tell me about land contracts
Can someone give me a crash course on land contracts? We are trying to sell a house and EVERYONE interested is wanting a land contract. I understand we would essentially be the "bank" they would make payments to us. H...
Ben Pupa
Selling a house, but I can't "clean" the title.... I BOUGHT IT CLEAN!
Hi all, I wasn't sure whether to post this in Legal or Buy/Sell, but I'll be grateful for any advice you have. in 2019 I purchased a property (survey map refers to it as "7B"). During the title search, it was determin...