We had a potential tenant give us a verbal commitment that he would sign our lease and move into our rental unit on November 6 (3 days from today). We sent him our lease via DocuSign last night. He viewed it last nigh...

I have been a property manager (and my wife a realtor) for many years on a smaller scale; helping out relatives and friends. But recently my company has exploded in the Hamilton County, IN area. I knew never to touch ...

I had a tenant text the other day that they paid a deposit and never got a deposit statement and they were trying to buy a house and that this needed to be settled in court.  I saw this and was thinking you have to be...

This is a first for me , a tenant who was in a hurry for their deposit back , never accepted the certified mail and it was returned  to me as undeliverable .   So Now I have a sealed envelope with a check in it . Ques...

I have prospective tenant that has a service animal. Typically I charge a non-refundable pet deposit. Is it still legal to charge this deposit for service animal? Thanks in advance!
-Charlie

Hi, 
If you are entering an owner financed loan, can you ask the current owner to transfer the current rental deposits over to you, or can you leverage it towards the down payment? I know in some states you are requi...

I own a "B+"  SFR in a HCOL university town with vacancy rates under 3%.  I've owned this unit for the last 2.5 years and have had three turnovers since (first tenant broke lease after 5 months due to job loss and the...

I have a prospective tenant who has no credit history, no evictions, and no criminal history.  I asked to verify employment and he claims to get direct deposit and no pay stub. He seems the perfect ghost. He filled ou...

Hello, I asked my tenant to pay the rent online. Gave him my wells fargo bank account and routing number. then he said his chase bank has sent me two small deposits to verify my account. so I gave him the amounts of t...

I live in MS but am moving to NY. After contacting several agents to see apartments on two days that I would be in the city, I decided to meet with a certain company. They showed me apartments and I saw one that I li...