Do any landlords require a deposit when a application is submitted that goes towards firsts month rent to cut out all the BS ($10 or $20) If it rejected they will get there money back. To many times I receive a ap...

I recall reading an article about background checks on potentail tentents for my apartments. It was were the possible tentent would submit there info and they pay for the service but i would get the results. Then i ca...

New to BP. Thanks for reading.For 10 years have been fixing and flipping last year we have been buying rental properties. They cash flow $48,000 a year. We have $500,000 in equity in real estate. But now I'm out of ca...

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Hi ~I have a tenant who is interested in renting my property.  Actually, it is a family of 4 (with 2 kids) plus the husband's mother.  The only problem is that the family has a poor credit of 500.  So far, they are am...

I've seen posts about renting to myself for tax purposes but I does anyone know if I could set myself up as a tenant and make rental payments for my personal property and if I were to do so, could I report the payment...

I got a call from a lady who has a house that's under water, and we struck a price, the contract price is about 70k under what she owes, maybe 20k under market, but the property needs work. Next week I'm rolling over ...

Hi BP and Happy Sunday!In the process of screening tenants for my first ever rental property. I've read the BP book on manging rental properties, and other articles and such about the Fair Housing Act, and am wonderin...

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We are screening tenants again. I go pretty much by the bigger pockets formula, some of my main instant declines are:
Gross less than 3x monthly rentevictions, feloniespoor rental historyDogs that my insurance d...

Just saw a major red flag when doing my due diligence on a prospective tenant. Did a rental verification and the landlord says they owe back rent. They list the reason for leaving as property needs major repair. No ev...