Timothy Lou
What's it really like owning a short-term rental in VB?
Hello everyone, I hope all of you are doing well in this pandemic and hope all this COVID thing will be over soon.
My wife and I are not too far from retirement and started thinking of buying an oceanside or oceanf...
Adrian Akerman
Returning 1/2 of security deposit at lease renewal
I have two approved applicants for my property and i have required a double security deposit (two month's rent, totaling $3,800.00) due to lack of rental history and one of them having some delinquent credit history. ...
Kalpesh Vaghela
Buying a late 70s SFR with non-permitted extenstion
Hi Folks.
I am looking at purchasing a single family residence in Dallas, TX (with a 30 year fixed) built in the late 70s that I will live in and eventually turn into a rental. Eveything is checking out fine at firs...
Jerad Grace
Sending Holiday Cards to Tenant
Was thinking about sending out Christmas cards to tenants. I only own 1 rental property and both my tenants are fantastic. I was even thinking about a small $50 amazon/gift card for both of them? How common is it to...
Florence Oxenham
Florence fresh from San Mateo, California
Hi All,
My name is Florence and I'm very new to real estate and to the United States (I hail from New Zealand). I'm newly married and my husband and I rent a townhouse in San Mateo, California. Before I met m...
Grace Porritt
Hard Money Lending Advice
I am approaching retirement and I need to be careful about the influence of income on my SS benefits. I have thought about starting to do some "hard money" loans on a short term basis for the right investors. Intere...
Adam Betley
Military member with a rental property
I am a military member who owns a home in Texas. I lived in that home as my primary residence from September 2005-August 2009. At that time I received orders outside of a 50 mile radius (Japan to be exact) and move...
Nick Versetto
Help me try to fund these 3 purchases
I found 3 great rental houses in my local burbs of Chicago.Here's the scenarios2 TH's currently rented for 1400 by long time tenants - Sale price 130k worth 150k x2 = 260k loan1 TH not rented but would fetch 12-1300Sa...
Jolene U.
Buying Tax Liens-Indiana
My husband & I are very interested in purchasing tax liens. Has anyone done this? Can anyone tell me the best place for more info on doing this?
Lalaine Hagler
Tenants complains
This is our 2nd tenant for our rental property and just got a laundry list of complains after moving it. Just minor issues that we can easily resolve but its a little discouraging since we never had any issue with ou...