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I'll never understand why 99% of the time people have negative responses when I tell them I am trying to get into real estate and rental properties. I mean literally every time I tell someone about it I get one of th...
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All:So ten years in and now I'm officially a landlord as I just got served with my first lawsuit. It's in magistrate's court and the tenant is asking for her last 6 months in back rent (~5k) as she says she has not be...
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My wife and I were fortunate enough to reach financial freedom just one year after making our first ever real estate investment. Here is a quick background story on our success and some tips and tricks I feel that any...
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I know there have been many threads started on Coronavirus and it's impact on STR's over the past few days, but I wanted to share this data that Airdna published today detailing the affects of it on different types of...
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I am located in Oregon, first time landlord. Our open house is tomorrow and someone has already mentioned they have Section 8 vouchers. My understanding is that it is an opt-in program? But that conflicts with the fac...
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I recently got a letter in the mail from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation.
It stated that I has committed a 3rd degree felony because properties i had listed on sites like Hotpads &am...
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An article recently published by Redfin highlights the current working from home trend. In a survey it's revealed that up to 1 in 4 newly remote workers expect to continue working from home after COVID 19 passes.
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Some Perspective... 0.15%
That's the percent of American people who have Covid-19 at the time of this writing. NOT even 1% of the total population.
Suppose the disease were to quadruple before this is over, that w...