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Erik Lee What should be avoided when buying you first rental property ?
16 March 2020 | 10 replies

What should you avoid when purchasing your first multiplex or property for rentals ?

Marc Shin STR - pets vs no pets
16 December 2024 | 21 replies

Hello - i'm trying to decide whether to allow pets or to not allow pets in my STR.   I see the benefit of allowing pets is that it allows you to open up your property to a much wider pool of guests and possibly also i...

Dan Tanner Pets and Smokers allowed or not pros and cons
5 May 2020 | 22 replies

I'm new to the rental business.  How do you all handle pets and smokers?  Allow or Not?  If not, how do you ensure rules are abided by?  What would be the penalties if you found they weren't abiding by the rules?  If ...

Ashley Wolfe First rental deal about to close, now what???
17 February 2016 | 4 replies

Hey BP friends,In the next week, we are closing on our first little rental house.  Its a 2/1, 1024 sq ft.  Clearly it was a flip because we had to negotiate some really big repairs to make the deal work.  Anyhoo, all ...

Jared MontBlanc 5 acres with Grapefruit trees - deductions?
11 August 2017 | 7 replies

So I have the potential to purchase a property with 3 units on 5 acres, which includes a ton of fruit trees that are taken care of by outsourced farmers (small check to owner). Apparently the big thing is the tax ben...

Ernest Ho Emotional Support Animal / Service Animal
16 January 2025 | 16 replies

My tenant has a ESA, and may be changed later to service dog.  Dog is around 1 yr old or just under.Do I need tenant to sign a lease addendum or something? so I can officially know about the dog, licenses, shots, etc....

Alex Alaniz Dog attack
16 April 2016 | 20 replies

Question for my multi family investors. In this particular scenario, I have a duplex and each side have 2 dogs. Neighbor A's dogs are never leashed and neighbor b's dogs are always leashed. A's dog ran after bs dog an...

Diane Stinebaugh pet rent or pet deposit in Arkansas?
30 May 2019 | 20 replies

hey everybody,I have had the same tenet for one year with a new lease coming up May 1st. He is thinking about getting a puppy for his family.  Which is better a one time pet deposit or add on to the monthly rent for a...

Benjamin Fishler Question regarding ESA disclosed post-signing
30 April 2021 | 9 replies

We have a new situation here that we’d greatly appreciate input on from the BP community… but first, anyone know a good lawyer to have on-hand for questions like these/cost?

We screened out many, many tenants that ...

Rishita Tiwari Tenants with service dogs
9 October 2022 | 10 replies

Dear Community,
I was having an interesting discussion with another landlord on the real estate partners discord (https://discord.gg/pKh34Yu3PM) regarding tenants having service dogs. So basically, some jurisdictions...