Curt Bixel
Preventing burglary and squatters at a short term rental
Recently, I had a break in at a short term rental I have in Columbus, Ohio. The unit had only been vacant for two days when someone kicked in the back door. I was lucky notice the break in quickly, as I just happene...
Peter Morgan
New Tenant petty requests
Hi,I have a new tenant and I processed all their requests soon after moving, the previous tenant never flagged these issues. Now they keep coming with petty requests,for example when a light bulb went off In the bath...
Phung N.
Routine maintenance for SFH rental
I am looking to create a routine maintenance schedule for my single family house rental. I know that I need to change the air filters, inspect the batteries on CO/smoke detectors, inspect the properties every 3 month...
Andrew Flora
Stinky Hallways and Stairwells
Hi,
I have a large multi family property that I self manage. It has 3 common indoor hallways that are about 120ft long 1 on each floor and stairwells. In the past the building has allowed smoking, and I have since...
Jacob Wells
Cleveland neighborhood grading and recommendation
Hello,
I am looking to start investing in Cleveland in the next month and trying to determine what areas and neighborhoods to look at. I am looking to rent to section 8 and hope that that will help with some of the n...
Austin Sanders
Reimbursing Section 8 Money to tenant
Say a landlord has a section 8 property and wants to reimburse the rent for the month of December back to the tenant (both their portion and the portion paid for by the government) as a result of feeling the holiday ...
Les Armour
Rental Property Improvements
I have a 3 family property in a lower to middle class neighborhood. The rental market is not what you would call hot right now, but I am looking to attract decent renters and stand out. The units have new flooring and...
Shawn Pottschmidt
percentage saved by do it yourself
I read a lot about hiring a contractor. Has anyone ever calculated how much they saved by not using contractors and did most of the rehab work themselves? Or the real question is what percent of costs is going to con...
Nick Watkins
Move out cost form
I was listening to podcast show 36 and they talked about a paper they gave to tenants who are planning to move out. It was sounded like an itemized list of cost for "repairs" example was 10 to put in a lightbulb. Does...
Dana N.
Home Inspections on my rental property
I would like some advise on how I should go about handling an annual home inspection.My rental property is in another state and it is managed by a Property Manager. This is our first rental and only had it for a year....