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What percentage of tenants are good
With the recent article claiming 62% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings, how viable is a business that relies on people to pay monthly rents. If for the sake of this question we divide prospective tenants...
Kunal Lakhwani
Experience with MN Property Nerds or Twin Cities Leasing
I am trying to decide between MN Property Nerds and Twin Cities Leasing for managing my long term rental in St Paul Minnesota.This is an out of state investment for me, and I also need help with tenant placement. So a...
Brandon Carlson
How do you ask an agent to host their open house?
Happy New Year BP Community!My name is Brandon. I have been a Real Estate Agent in Southern California for 15 months. 2021 was good to me; I closed nine transactions, most of them being listings. Now that the new year...
Bettina S.
Security Deposit question
More and more Utility companies make it the responsibility of the landlord when the tenant has an outstanding utility bill at move-out even so the lease mandates for the tenant to be responsible for the utilities. Has...
Kelly Payne
How to do Cash for Keys with Illegal Immigrant
Hi guys,
I got a house under contract that also came with an unhappy tenant. The tenant's wife was living at the house under a L/O contract, which expired 8 months ago. The couple got a divorce, the wife moved out,...
Zain B.
Tenant has not paid rent and is not responding to call or text
Hello BP community, I have an out of state tenant who has rented my property for almost two years. He generally pays on time (some times before time) and I have never had an issue with collecting rent. Today is 6th of...
Jimmy S.
How would you handle this?
O boy here goes try to make a long story shortHad first, last and security upfront.Couple moved in july, he was arrested in september.Rent was due September 1st never paid still as of today. I was forced to use their ...
Mike Schorah
Is anyone still cold calling?
I tried hand dialing. The first 25 people I called (took an average of 4-5 phone numbers per person) went through fine and I had pretty good results with people picking up. One even led to an appointment. I got a stra...
Hector Lozano
San Antonio Wholesalers - Is Direct Mail DEAD???
I recently had a conversation with another investor in San Antonio that told me that direct mail wasn't a good approach. He mentioned that after I had told him that I was planning on doing my first mailings in Oct. ...
Mahmudul Shoikot
When to send to collection agency for non- payment of rent and break the lease.
I have a house in Texas and had to move to Michigan temporily for work purpose. I made a wrong decision of renting my house to a known person rather than going professionally with agency. Long story short, my tenant o...