Justin R.
Pain tenants, and mold, please help
Looking for advice....Nightmare situation and tenants.Hello All, I rehabbed a beautiful house in Southern Ca and recently rented it out Aug 1st. In the first month of the tenants residing my property manager has recei...
Diana Dorantes
‘What’s in your garage’?
My husband and I recently met a couple who were rehabbing a rental and noticed that they were driving a very nice luxurious SUV, now we learned they have had rentals for 40 years and were ready to begin to sell off s...
Michael L.
Opening the Kimono: My Out-of-State REI Experience
Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property. A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago. I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...
Luke H.
Tenants of 7yrs wants full deposit back.
Tenants of 7yrs leaves this month and is already requesting full deposit back. I explained that I had 30 days to do the accounting.
How do you guys handle these? It was like that when we moved in.That was from th...
Laura Williams
How much do new windows save on utility cost?
For those of you who have fully replaced old windows & installed new ones in your personal or rental properties I’m curious what percentage it reduced your utility bills.I have an apartment unit that has 15 large ...
Jason V.
Ready for Self-Help Eviction, but I accepted a rifle as deposit!!
Definitely many legal issues at play here, but I'll give my side of the story before starting this process to see what you guys think (besides the fact that I'm incredibly stupid & naive for breaking numerous rule...
Rick Bassett
Tenant screening uncovered DUI's, jail time etc
Hi All,
Looking for a sanity check here with a potential tenant.
He called on a property, loved it with 2 minutes of walking through it (almost no one loves this property as it has a strange floor plan) and emailed...
Joe Grebe
Basic Budget Question
This is the most basic budget question. My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year. This gives a really good place to start for a budg...
Atwan Kwan
How to SAVE on ENERGY????
Problem...... - Utilities From HELL!!!!My client has the property from hell, with an old-school forced air furnace.....I was able to get them great tenants at a great rate..... only to find the blood sucking heat drai...
Mark R
Anonymous Landlording
In the past my tenants knew us as the landlords and owners. They'd call us if they had problems and issues. In the future we are going to take the advise of others and stay anonymous as much as we can.
Do you guys w...