I am fairly new to land-lording and this is the first time this issue has come up. In June I had two rental properties that had water leaks causing a high bill at one property ($217.00) and an extremely high bill (ove...

Hi all!So in Massachusetts it's against the law to charge an application fee or to charge a prospective tenant a fee for a credit check.So...What do you do?  I really like SmartMove, but I can't say I'm interested in ...

I recently read "Landlords grow rich in their sleep". Is renting a unit as easy as purchasing a unit, hiring a management group, and collecting the cash flow?

I am buying a 4 unit property. Currently 2 of the 4 units are rented near but slightly below market rate. The owner stated he could deliver the units empty if needed. I do not plan on doing major repairs at the moment...

Greetings everyone,I have to inject my personal opinion here.  I recently went through a bad eviction with a commercial tenant that I inherited with a building I purchased.   And all during conversations about this wi...

I have property in san jose.The washer stopped working. We sent a repairman within a few days. Repair guy diagnosed said have to replace washer. The next day renter mentioned fridge stopped worked. Had to send repairm...

I'm somewhat new to Ohio and I'm looking to buy some duplexes (triplexes and quads). I'm wondering what the standard is for snow removal? With a smaller multi-unit, do tenants expect to remove snow themselves or do t...

A few months ago we were in the process of evicting some tenants. The complaint and the letter from my lawyer stuck strictly to facts of the lease violations but, as could be expected, the tenants' response was filled...

So we just bought a triplex. It looked like it was fully leased out, so I felt pretty good about it. One person was only there for 6 months, but the owner said he really liked it there and wanted to stay. After buying...

Hi, recently we changed our wifi password for security. And our landlord came to request the new password. When we questioned him on why would we give it to him, he mentioned it's in our lease agreement that we have t...