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Anyone watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe? I know its a bit off topic, but I saw an interesting episode yesterday. Mike was working with an exterminator who had to remove bees from a house's walls. It was pretty amazi...
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Hello BP,It's only $1000 but with the language in the contract, it should be returned back to me. My loan was denied due to "excessive obligations" and "lack of income for obligations". I forwarded this to the seller ...
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Our property management business recently reached 1,000 total reviews across our 18-property portfolio, and we’ve been fortunate enough to maintain a 4.99 average rating across all OTAs.
I wanted to share some strate...
Hi there! I spent hours last night pouring over this forum and hadn’t found anything that quite addressed my unique and frustrating situation. I recently closed on my first home in Miami FL (yay!) and it’s 2 houses, ...
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How much time do you spend self-managing your short-term rental? Weighing the pros and cons of LTR vs STR in my market. Yes, STRs appear to have better cashflow, but unsure of the time commitment needed. My wife an...
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I've had the same unmarried couple as tenants for 4 years now. They were good tenants at first. But the past couple of years whenever I go in to access repairs, I've noticed they are not clean people. The walls are na...
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Hey everyone,I walked through a pretty run-down house the other day that was completely infested with cats. It looked like something out of the TV show "Hoarders." The (formerly) nice wooden floors were soaked with ca...
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I just got what seems like an abnormally high estimate of 10k to touch up each unit in a multi-unit complex when renters move out.For background the building is in Columbus, Ohio and each unit is a 3bed approx 850 squ...
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I served a 30 day notice to unit due to on-going obnoxious noise which was disturbing others. We’re talking snowmobiles at 2am, rocking until 5am type noise. I wanted them out. They didn’t drag it out, they cleaned ...
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I am about to purchase my first small multifamily (5-unit) property and plan on initially managing it myself. I have some practical questions:1) How often do you clean the common areas?2) How often do you do pest cont...