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Smoking and Pets...YES OR NO?
Without being to terrible cynical here, I understand the demographic of what a renter is. Of course there are wonderful renters out there, and there are terrible renters out there too. The middle course or group, I th...
Hai Le
Commercial Zoned Parking Issues
I have a rental property in the middle of two businesses, one beside me is an insurance agency that I have no issues with, the other one is a smoke/vape shop that just opened up. I’ve had an insane amount of issues wi...
Sam Leon
Fire extinguisher liability
Was reading up on this and obviously you need to provide what the local fire safety code dictates, but that aside, do you provide fire extinguishers to individual units?Seems more and more are shying away from doing t...
Scott Passman
What the heck happened to supply and demand economics?
What happened to the basic understanding of supply and demand? I didn’t grow up in a financially savvy household, but even as a kid I remember having a distinct awareness and understanding of supply and demand and it...
Clayton Gray
Ontario government mulling changes to Residential Tenancy Act.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/rental-...Interesting how they only have quotes from tenant's rights groups. CBC bias maybe? What do all you Canada market mavens think about this?
Kat Rathell
Dog pee smell - stained hardwood floors
We asked our tenants to move out due to the blatant violation of the 'no pet' clause, but the damage has been done, and the unit reeks of dog pee. The floors are dark, so we have no idea as to the source, and it has b...
Nicole Heasley Beitenman
What should you NOT buy your tenant for the holidays?
I've seen a few posts around from landlords wondering if they should get their tenants a holiday gift and, if so, what to get.
After walking around the dollar store earlier this week, I thought it would be much more ...
Chad Hurin
Tools & supplies to have on hand as a brand new landlord
Hi BP,What are some 'must have' tools/supplies to have on hand as a brand new landlord and someone who doesn’t have many tools. What did you wish you had on your first service call to your property and had to run to t...
Dan Mackin
Effective Rent By The Room Strategies
As it becomes more prominent in the US it seems there should be a discussion on renting by the room. Yes, I'm aware that this has been done forever with student rentals, but I'm specifically talking about post-college...
Nathan M kiefer
Tp or not tp
We have been getting people complaining that we only leave 1 full roll of toilet paper on each of our bathroom toilet paper holders. We also leave one roll of paper towel and we have 4 bathrooms so there is 4 rolls an...