Hey BP, I wanted to get your thoughts on property management. For someone who is just starting out and purchasing either a SFH or duplex to fix up and rent out, would you recommend self managing the property or lookin...

Hello,
I have 10 single family homes as rentals. I opened a checking account for each property to manage its rent collection and to pay its expenses, ie: mortgage, maintenance, etc. Each month I scrape these accounts ...

I have a poll for all of you landlords regarding online payments.

1 What offerings do you have for your tenants to make online payment?
2 What are the costs and are they per payment(and who pays it)?
3 How long does...

my brokers office is located about 50-60 (inland empire) miles away from where i spend most of my time at (los angeles/orange county).reason why i joined that office is because my buddy works there and wanted me to jo...

I recently converted to Quickbooks Online for 2 main reasons: 1) peace of mind in case my computer decides to crash 2) may eventually hire a virtual bookkeeper so thought online would be easier.  I thought I could jus...

What programs/websites can tenants use to pay rent online?I know I have heard of a few but I am drawing blanks right now...

Hello,
Curious to know what you'd do in this situation. Rent is due today (October 1st). Tenant asked if we could work with her to avoid late payment fee (assessed if rent not paid prior to or on 4th day of month) si...

Hi there,
There are a lot of posts on this topic but none I could find with extremely recent testimonials on Buildium. I am deciding between these two software options for my portfolio of about 100 units and was ini...

I am looking for another service similar to payyourrent.com where you can set up rent collection where YOU pull the rent out of their account. This is different from other sites that require the tenant to set up/chang...

Hello BP community,

I'm interested to learn what most investors do with the portion of rental income commonly set aside for cap ex, repair, and vacancy costs.

Does it go straight to the bank? Invested in CD's or a ...