Nate Bell
Allow Smokers In Your Apartments?
I’ve purchased an abandoned adult car home and am going to be converting it into eight 1+1 apartments. Cheap property, huge rehab costs. It’s in a smoker-friendly state and the units will be about $550/month not inclu...
Eric Calabrese
The process of an eviction
Hey fellow pocketers! So I finally have a home and I got my first bite on a tenant. She seems like a nice woman from speaking with her, good income pretty bad credit but it's typical for the area. Being extra cautious...
Cameron Riley
Class C property investors: What CRITERIA do you follow?
- Only Post if you own more than 2 Class “ C “ rental properties - For the tenants that apply without section 8 voucher, how do you process their applications? - I often find them asking, what’s the process and I hate...
Pete Wobus
Tenant who smokes
I became a landlord for the first time earlier this year and made a stupid mistake: I rented my house to two adult smokers and did nott include a "no smoking" clause in the lease. The renters are otherwise very ni...
Derek Luttrell
Closed on First Out of State SFR - Screening Question
Hey Everyone, I closed on my first out of state rental today--it's my hometown in Indiana, but I live in Chicago now. My dad is still in this town.Anyway, I put up an online ad yesterday, had my closing at 9:00 a.m. t...
Rhondalette W.
1st rental property gets 10 interested on Craigslist. Now what?
I placed my first rental property on Craigslist 3 days ago and 10 responded so far and are interested. Here is my plan, followed by a few questions, what do you advise?
I have telephone screened a few and weeded ou...
David Lorenz
Is it legal to limit number of tenants residing in a unit?
Hi BP!I'm in the tenant screening process with my first rental (a duplex in Philly). The bottom unit is a 2 bedroom that's roughly 700ish sq ft. I would prefer to limit the number of tenants in that unit to 2 (1 per b...
Dennis Tierney
Smoker started a fire
3 am Sunday a tenant smoking on the apartment porch carelessly discarded a cigarette and started a fire that destroyed the top 4 units in a 24 unit building. Fortunatley no one was hurt and the firemen saved the rest ...
Daniel Alfandre
Group of adult applicants - accept or reject?
Hi All, I'm getting ready to rent out my first property in Baltimore and have some questions about three scenarios of groups of adults who apply:Do you require each spouse of a married couple to qualify for income, ba...
Mike Healey
Income Requirements for Tenant Criteria
I am in the process of going through the tenant application/screening process for the first time. Currently I'm writing up some selection criteria and came across a question on income requirements. I went with the sta...