Sean Grieve
Cleaning HVAC system after pet?
Hello, I have a tenant who is allergic to pet hair moving in at the beginning of next month. My previous tenants owned a gerbil. I will have the place professionally cleaned but do I need to have the HVAC duct system ...
Collin Hays
Are you paying VACASA 39 percent of revenues? Probably!
Follow along with me here. You owe it to yourself. I was tipped off by this from a client that we took over today.
I went to VACASA.com and booked this cabin for January 11-14. The nightly rate is $127. The tot...
Darren Love
Can I Evict This Tenet?
I want to start by first mentioning that I'm from the Chicagoland area. And the tenet I'm about to talk about has been a nice quiet tenet for as long as I have known them, so this surprises me. She complained about du...
Jeremy Silva
Only 19 and ready to wholesale, will people take me serious?
Hello, I am 19 and I’ve been following real estate investment for a while now. I would like to hit the road running and start investing as soon as possible. I would like to start through the wholesale market, but my p...
Brian Ragsdale
Investor from New Hampshire and Chicago
Hello--I have been here for about 4 years-upper valley NH, ever since we relocated from Chicago to here. Long story short, my husband worked at Dartmouth, 20 years ago--and I swore to never come back...there were no ...
Sylwester Olszewski
Security Deposit and Unit Damage Question
My tenant is moving out at the end of this month. I went and did an inspection of the unit and found some problems.1) Handle to the refrigerator is ripped off. 2) They used large nails to hang paintings so now I have ...
Eric O'Brian
Switching Up Yellow Letter Message Between Mailings
Hello All,
Can anyone recommend how to change my message between my routine Yellow Letter campaign mailings?
I currently have a list of 3,000 absentee owners, and they get one of my letters every quarte...
Robert Spiegel
Security Deposit Deduction: What is reasonable for cleaning
I recently had a long-term (5.5 years) tenant move out. She was a fantastic tenant—always paid on time, easy to work with, and took good care of the property overall. She did move in two cats during her tenancy (with ...
Ashish Acharya
Real life example of the real estate professional status
Recently, in the case Birdsong, doctor's wife demonstrated that she actively and extensively managed their rental properties and was therefore a “real estate professional”. RE professional is not limited by the passi...
Richard Phan
How important is a mentor?
Hi,In everyone's opinion, how important is it to find a mentor/coach when starting out in investing or anything in real estate? I'm learning a lot here, but feel like a mentor would be extremely beneficial.Thanks