Ola Dantis
Why Do You Young-ish Entrepreneurs/RE Investors Fail?
I cannot count how many times I've seen a post on BP from someone young-ish saying how they just want to quit college (or their job) and "jump" into Real Estate. When I see these posts my brain immediately chuckles (n...
Danny Polanski
California is at it again.
California county bans landlords from conducting criminal background checks for housing!https://www.foxnews.com/us/cal...
Brendan M.
Flexible Tenant Selection Criteria?
I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...
Mindy Jensen
Automatically Eliminating Criminal Records? Not so fast, says HUD
Criminal record? For years, landlords have been able to automatically disqualify any tenant with a criminal record - as they were not a protected class under Fair Housing Laws. Recent recommendations from HUD are call...
Trevor Ewen
Military Landlords
If you own one or multiple single families that you rent to service men/women, I would love your response to these questions:- What's the best part about investing with military tenants?- What is your biggest difficul...
Katie Willcox
Pre-Screening - Are We Being Too Tough?
Hi Everyone!We took possession of our first rental on July 15th and we are self-managing it. We've prepared a pre-screening questionnaire with guidance from Heather & Brandon Turner's Managing Rental Properties b...
Karen Bickford
Do you ever feel like a predator?
As investors we are always looking for a good deal as that is how we grow learn and hopefully prosper.I just logged off of the MLS feeling disgusted with myself for feeling like well, a predator. Googling an owner...
Scott Pigman
Realtor gave our lock box code away
So how's this for a shady situation,Yesterday, I'm working from home - a house which we have on the MLS as a rental.Some realtor -- and we're still trying to figure out who exactly she was,1. Did not schedule a showin...
Liz C.
Applicant with Marijuana conviction from 7 years ago.
Hi all ,
Would you take someone from Marijuana conviction from 7 years ago as tenant ?
When they say Marijuana conviction means he smoke marijuana or could mean he was selling it?
Is easy to get rid of marijuana sm...
Crystal Ward
Should I rent to a felon?
Tenant and his wife filled out a rental application 2 weeks back. I gave full disclosure that I will preform a credit and background check. When presented with this information he explained he had a felony 7 years ago...