Jason Powell
What value do you get from your Financial Advisor?
I would love to hear from folks who use an advisor and are content to pay their 1%(ish) fee, what value are you getting that you feel is worth paying for?
Bryan Hancock
Do You Carry Your Properties At Historical Cost Or Mark Them To Market?
When you do your accounting for your PFS, business books, etc. do you carry the projects at historical cost or mark them to market? If you mark them to market how do you determine "true" market value without cheating...
Mahmuda L.
Tenant eligibility regarding past eviction
My manager is asking if I (landlord) will allow prospective tenants with no eviction in past 4 years. I was thinking no evictions at all. But what's the acceptable and more common practice here? From a simple online s...
Vishakha Penney
Former tenant who owes me money trying to have me served.
Former tenant moved out after 9 months without contractually agreed upon proper notice, after pretty well trashing a brand new property. She owes me a few hundred dollars in damages on top of her deposit but I decided...
Alex Owens
New Member Introduction... AND First Deal
What's going on everybody! My name is Alex Owens, I am 22 years old, and I just graduated from the University of Oklahoma. I began my real estate journey two years ago when - as a Finance and Accounting student - I re...
Marie Larcom
Tenant lease expired January 18, 2024, tenant has taken down our living room blinds
We have a tenant that has been very difficult to deal with. When we contact him he just does not answer most of my text messages and calls. His lease ended on January 31, 2024 and he is now on the month to month from ...
Alyssa Lebetsamer
My First Eviction - does it ever go smoothly?
It looks like I am going to have to evict one of my tenants very soon. fingers crossed a miracle pulls through, but assuming it doesn't....For those of you that have been through this before - do renter's ever receive...
Dan Crenshaw
Negligence causes pipes to freeze. Who is at fault?
Every time my tenant would leave, they would turn their heat off (hwbb) to save money. I told them not to do that because you’re not really saving that much AND the cost of a frozen or ruptured pipe is WAY more that w...
Tina S.
does it matter where your electric panel box is?
I'm updating a 1950s 2/1 900SF home in South Carolina. The electrician suggests upgrading to a 200 electrical service entry with through the roof mast and relocate existing circuits into a single EXTERIOR 40-space 200...
Ronald Mejia
What to do with mortgage free property?
Our family home is currently rented out and mortgage free. There are no plans on going back to occupy the home. The goal is the grow into real estate portfolio. It earns positive cash flow but does a SFH carry more ri...