Jim K.
Tired of all the winning
10:51 pm, I get a call from a tenant at my duplex. She tells me that her roommate is having seizures, that she's called 911, and that 10-12 of her roommate's friends are streaming out of the apartment as we speak. I h...
Account Closed
Bad neighbors and the slumlord owner next door.
I have a rental in a lower income area that has about three quarters of the people living there are related or friends of some sort. This is a nice place to live except the new monsters next door. Next door a nice hom...
Will Gaston
Do You Think My College Students Tenants Busted this Floor Joist?
All:My handyman just called me and said that a floor joist was split underneath one of my college student rentals. Five guys live there and had friends over for the Super Bowl on Sunday night. They claim it was only "...
Chris Williams
Lay-of-the-Land in the Tacoma Area
Hey folks! I'm looking at one of two areas for a 2020 move - Vancouver and Tacoma. The former due to its growing nature & proximity to Portland; the latter due to the fact that it's not in Seattle!The plan: I plan...
Jason Clark
This Landlord Stuff is Hard Work!
This is just a minor vent session but I got my first taste of real world landlord work this past weekend. And not the good kind. Not the "retire by 40 and travel the world" kind but more of the "your tenant will try a...
Daniel Maciag
Advice on living in hood
I am thinking about buying a 3 Unit MF house within 1 hour of train/bus commute to NYC for about 300-400k. The issue is, this is in the hood. I plan on being in and out within 2 years of renovation and renting out eve...
Eric DeVito
Future Newbie Landlord /W some Questions. Advice Needed!
Hello all, so I have some questions as a future Landlord that I am just trying to figure out.1) I am interested in a property that is a Short Sale and Utilities are currently turned off. If I do end up buying the prop...
Mauricio Lopez
Neighbor complaning about loud noise from tenant's autistic son
Hello everyone. I am currently presenting a situation I had not come across before and I can use some help from your wisdom and experience. My family owns a rental property in a B class neighborhood in San Diego (Whic...
Angel Malone
Is partner shady or really unorganized?
My husband and I are in an LLC as members and our partner is manager of the LLC. We have 2 SFH properties we seller financed together and everything went smoothly. We are newbies and our partner is very experienced i...
April Dagonese
Dealing with Excessively Drunk Tenant
I've been renting out rooms in my house for about 9 months now, on leases ranging from 3-12 months at a time. The experience has mostly been great so far, but at the beginning of May a new tenant moved in who has real...