I have over 45 units now and every time a vacancy comes up, the property managers want to repaint the entire unit even though 99% of the paint looks great in a lot of cases.  This is obviously eating into cash flow!  ...

So this came up today with a friend of mine who currently rents his house but is looking to buy a house in the next couple of months. His landlord decided they would want to sell the house, and he is getting the run a...

Hi, wanted some high level advice / thoughts.  My brother and I both have good day jobs and also run a profitable website as a side business (total business profit of 60-80k a year).  Aside from our stocks, 401k, etc ...

I am new to Bigger Pockets but not to real estate. I have been in the buy hold game for over 20 years. I can honestly say I have made about every mistake humanly possible in real estate but I have always been good at ...

I have an applicant asking if we accept Section 8? I have never dealt with it. Pros? Cons? Do I legally have to accept it? They want to apply to our newly built , high quality rentals...

He everyone, I currently did a walk-through of my properties I own in the midwest. For the most part, I know what to look for. For example, I have a rental with two military tenants. They're amazing. The house was in ...

My tenant is requesting a 5 year lease. I was originally going to increase rent by 3% per year.  Because they want to sign for 5 years, which will reduce vacancy costs, I should probably reduce the annual rent increas...

To all of you who have short term rentals I would appreciate your thoughts and advice on rehabbing a property for a short term rental.  I have a duplex where one half has been fixed up and is very clean and nice and I...

I know that looking at someone's car is a great indication of how tidy of a renter they are going to be. Well, I had a gall drive up for a showing in a nice Suburban with her mom and we ended up renting to them (d...

I'm looking for some entertaining short stories from the Landlords and Property Managers here on BP.Have you ever had to notify your tenants about something that you thought for sure was common knowledge?Have you ever...