I have a friend who wants to sell their triplex in San Francisco, but they have two long term tenants who have been there and because of rent control, they have a hard time asking them to leave. I've never worked in r...

I'm in the process of renovating my latest rental house.  I've been thinking about Smart-Home features which would be beneficial to a landlord as opposed to wiz-bang cool features to attract tenants. Specifically, I'm...

Dear BiggerPockets community,Presently I've been financing flips/rehabs through a secured line of credit.The current lending agreement allows me to borrow up to around $325,000 and my bank will allow me to use this mo...

Hi BP community,First I would like to admit that my idea of picking a market for apartment investing was all over the place and I didn't really have a criteria defined to select a market. After listening to some real ...

I plan on moving and keeping my current residence as a rental.
It is time to replace the carpet and I am wondering if I should just put cheap carpet back in it or put in cheap laminate, as I believe laminate would hol...

Hi fellow members,  I have a tenant who started his lease about a month ago, and paid rent, security deposit and pet fee with checks that bounced.  On top of that is making requests for cosmetic repairs.  I had filed ...

Let's start with the good news. First, this is my first post on BiggerPockets, even though I've been an avid reader and podcast listener for more than a year. Second, my partner and I recently purchased our first rent...

I am a landlord of a tenant in a condo building.  A neighbor (who has a tenant living in their unit as well) 2 floors above's window fell out and crashed onto my tenants' brand new window unit air conditioner and her ...

My current property manager is well priced, but it is not working out. There are too many dropped balls, unreturned txt/emails... I feel like I need to ask a question 3 times sometimes to get an answer. And the PM i...

Hi everyone, my first post on this forum. I'm hoping that someone here can offer some advice on a rather uncommon situation.I'm an Aussie passport holder with a non-immigrant b1/b2 US visa, so in simple terms I'm a fo...