Jeffrey McKee
Tenant filing suit for security deposit from a year ago :/
Hi All, I have a tenant who has come back to me requesting her 400 dollars of the 1200 dollar security deposit. She was 1/4 roomates and did pay 400 of the 1200 deposite. They all vacated the property early due to co...
Zoie Holley
What do you think stops people from starting?
So I’m 20 in college and going into my final two semesters of college and I’m reading my first real estate book and I wanted to do the housing hacking route in West Virginia (that’s where I go to school and what’s the...
MarieChele Porter
Property manager ordered wrong size refrigerator
Basically, I have tenants that requested a new refrigerator even though the other refrigerator was working it just was older and had some shelves that were broken. My property manager was trying to get a refurbished r...
John Neff
What books have you found most helpful?
Has anyone read any books that they thought to be particularly helpful? I’m pretty familiar with a lot of the bigger hitters, but would love to discover some books with less notoriety.Thanks!
Michael Ealy
Some Say Owning a Rental House is NOT Passive - Prove/Disprove It
Landlords, BIG and small...Here's a question for you.How many minutes/hours do you spend every month on average doing all of the following: (per property)1. Calling your Operating team - Property Manager, leasing agen...
Tim Pommett
Can you have too few rental properties?
I'm a newbie, and recently attended my local DFW Real Estate Investment club this Saturday. I heard this interesting idea about a buy and hold philosophy in relation to vacancy:
Most investors don't own enoug...
Clay Manship
What To Do with These Tenants?
Here is what is going on:I purchased a 4-plex on September 11, 2014. 2 of the 4 units came occupied, so I inherited two different families as tenants.I am utilizing FHA 203k financing on this property, so I would idea...
Colin White
A pointless life...
...is what I don't want.
So where do I start? I need money, yeah, what's new. I'm just a kid out of high school. So, should I take the usual route and go to college and study business, or accounting, or medicine, ...
Jason Crow
HELOC for Investments - Good or Bad Idea?
My wife and I own a house and land worth about 1 million, free and clear. We are in a hot market in the Austin area. We have previously flipped homes and owned a few rentals prior to the housing crash. I decided to ge...
Camille Joos-Visconti
Los Angeles rent control laws & a problem inherited tenant!
We bought a duplex last January & inherited a tenant. It’s a duplex lot but has 2 houses on it. I’ve had nothing but trouble with this tenant. They pay their rent on time. When purchasing the property, there was n...