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Landlords have a noble mission. We provide safe and clean housing to our tenants, keep homes maintained and reasonably respond to our tenants requests. We provide housing options so that the government doesn’t have to...
Retirement / financial planning are extremely important tasks. My biggest beef and frustration though is that the vast majority of planners fail to consider real estate and other investments when building a plan.
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Newbie ti BP, but not RE world. Been out awhile, not sure of what lending to get in CA. A little rusty one computer - and have never done social networking *unless you can count e-mailing!!!* Not yet sure how to nav...
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Agents / Brokers / Property managers sit on top of of a sphere of influence, a myriad of social media platforms, and a desire to excel and secure a stake in life for themselves and their family. How best to parlay th...
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I met a wonderful potential tenant who filled out the application with good credit and passed the cozy background check.However, her monthly income she receives is from social security and her assets are a small IRA a...
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Good morning everyone,I have been investing in real estate for years but have recently come to the thought that I'd like to set up a company that would act as a small REIT. However, I know there are tremendous legal l...
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Straight from Massachusetts law:(3) (a) Any security deposit received by such lessor shall be held in a separate, interest-bearing account in a bank, located within the commonwealth under such terms as will place su...
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I'm just finishing up the rehab on my first SFR rental. As it winds down, I'm really trying to streamline my application-to-lease processes. My plan is to give all interested tenants an application at the time of sh...
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I have recently acquired a new property with existing tenants living there. Previous owner was holding security deposits in non interest bearing accounts, as per law in Massachusetts we are required to put it in the i...
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Hello everyone,I'm curious if any landlords are using online storage (google drive, etc) to store their tenant documents (lease, applications,etc). If so, are you worried about it ever being hacked and then the tenant...