Amanda G.
What are your renter screening criteria?
Everyone says how important screening tenants is. Experts, what grade of property do you rent, and what are your tenant standards?Income 3x rent?A certain credit score?Evictions/evictions filed?Criminal history?Bankru...
Jeff G.
Violent Armed Tenants and Multifamily Homes
A few years ago a close relative rented an apartment with his fiance (now wife) and only made it about 6 months before demanding to be let out of the lease. The reason: there were several brawls in the parking lot tha...
Brandon Turner
HUGE Launch - BiggerPockets LOVE: The Dating Service for Investors
By now, all of us know that BiggerPockets is a fantastic resource for avoiding bad real estate deals.But even more than a bad deal, a bad life partner can REALLY cripple any real estate aspirations.The so-called “cash...
Andrew Carlson
My tenant might be a prostitute
The tenants ‘boyfriend’ leaves the property and oddly enough, another male shows up for a short amount of time. This happens regularly, according to the on-site care taker of the property. There’s either drug dealing,...
Theo Daubresse
Minimum Standard for Credit Scores and Security Deposits
Hello All,
I am looking into purchasing my first investment property in a C+ / B- neighborhood in Richmond, VA. In addition to checking income, employment verification, criminal background and the tenant’s rental hi...
Paul Sandhu
Anyone do STRs exclusively to non-vacationing people?
There are a few people on here that rent to traveling nurses, but it seems like I'm the only one that has working people as primary STR tenants. Anyone else rent to working people?
Rob Chamberlain
Mixed use zoning
Hello everyone, I am interested in advice on a mixed use property that I am looking at where there is a restaurant on the 1st floor and apartments on the 2nd and 3rd levels. Originally the two upper levels were office...
Andrea Nielson
Cleaning Checks for Student Housing
We just closed on our first rental property. It is one block from the college in our town. We are planning on renting it out by the room to college students. When I went to school we had to pass monthly cleaning ch...
Natalie Allen
Pitching Seller Financing
I came across a FSBO, it’s fully rented and totals $2550 in rent roll. Seller is a little old lady. She “just wants an offer”. The daughter guessed she’d sell for $140k-$150k. After running the numbers it will gen...
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A to D Class
How can I find out what class an apartment complex belongs to, both the building and the neighborhood?