Brian Kaminski
Someone shot in unit - need help in how to respond?
I just received a call that someone was shot and killed inside one of my units last night. The people involved aren't on the lease. Sounds like a fight broke out and someone was shot and killed. This property is a d...
Justin Burns
Wholesale/Rehab in Dallas
This question is about wholesaling, but is directed at the rehabbers as to what you want/need.
A brief background about my strategy; I do this part time and have done 3-4 profitable wholesale deals over the past yea...
Christina B.
Cleaning Costs (Actual vs. Listed)- Tax liabilities?
Having reviewed what's previously been discussed on this forum regarding whether people list what their actual cleaning cost is vs. a reduced (or in some cases inflated) price, can anyone share if there is a tax liabi...
Jim Shepard
Additional Rental Revenue Streams
All,About 2 years ago I started taking what I call the "Cafeteria" approach to my rentals. I was trying to come up with additional revenue streams to increase my potential profit on a unit. A few examples of this wo...
Ryan Na
Security deposit issues - California
HI all, Thanks for all the discussion and help going on here. Hope I can contribute soon, but at the moment I could use a little help.We bought our first multi-unit property this summer and had to evict a tenant for u...
Mike Franco
Build cleaning into the lease.
How many of you do that?
I feel that I will have to treat tenants like children because they absolutely do not clean even once during the whole lease term.
If I didn't include a gardener, the yard would be trashed.
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Barry Alter
Tenant move out after 2 weeks because of a robbery. do i have to give back the security deposit?
I rented out one of my apartments to new tenants. after 2 weeks they had a robbery.the tenants were scared to stay in the apartment so they moved out. now they're asking back for the security deposit. what do i do am ...
Byron Bohlsen
Security Deposit and smokers
I just bought an occupied duplex with long term tenants (Since 2008). Tenants decided to give notice at time of purchase. Tenants admitted there is about 3-4 years of smoke damage to the unit as they started smoking i...
Letitia Harris
Difficult heirs, it's almost like the Hatfields vs. McCoys!
This seems like the right place to post, and ask for advice. I've found an abandoned SFR, and after over a year of searching, finally found the heirs. The house has serious back debt to the city & back taxes, ...
Arov Smith
Itemized deduction and pet fee
Are we required to provide usage split for 'non-refundable' pet cleaning fee as part of move out deduction. The tenant had given $500 refundable cleaning fee and $200 non-refundable pet cleaning fee. After move out, ...