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Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | January 16, 2012 
This has been a subject that has been debated for as long as I can remember; whether or not to allow your tenants to have pets. What I have always found, is that it really doesn’t matter what your policy is. They are probably going to bring them whether or not you actually allow pets. When [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Sharon Vornholt | October 24, 2011 
As entrepreneurs that happen to be real estate investors, we are constantly looking for ways to grow our business. We spend a lot of time marketing for motivated sellers, adding quality buyers to our buyers’ list, and looking for tenants for our properties. But once we have those people on our list, what do we [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | August 2, 2011Jonathan Rivera aka Real Tech Guy is a real estate investor and expert in marketing through social media for real estate professionals and investors; he is also the creator of Facebook’s hugely popular Real Estate Referral Group. In our interview (19:35 minutes), we discuss his ventures as a landlord and rehabber, investing in low-income neighborhoods, [...]
Landlord Tenant by Peter Giardini | July 15, 2011 
“LANDLORD ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED RAPE” This was a recent headline in a local paper here in Maine. It got my attention for several reasons and got me to thinking about how vulnerable landlords (property managers included) are when entering your rentals properties. To be sure… this landlord has huge problems, as he was in the tenants bedroom, [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Andrew C. MacDonald | July 11, 2011 
Call it rent to own, lease to own, lease options, or whatever you like. The strategy has been gaining popularity thanks to the numerous benefits of rent to own for each party in the transaction. There are two fundamental approaches to putting these deals together; the tenant first approach or the property first approach. There [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Peter Giardini | June 2, 2011 
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article here on the BiggerPockets Blog entitled Landlords… How To Proceed When The Rent is Late! While the article had some good insight regarding actions you should be taking to protect both your rent and property when the rent is late, one of the comments to that [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Peter Giardini | March 31, 2011I am sure you have heard this saying regarding real estate deals… “some of my best deals, were the ones I didn’t do”? The same can be said for tenants as well. “Some of your best tenants are the ones you didn’t accept.” The problem with selecting tenants is that your selection process can’t be [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Mark Saunders | December 3, 2010 
I know you are all aware of how quickly word spreads these days. Through blogs, forums, Twitter, Facebook, and rss feeds alone, it takes seconds to spread the word. When the word isn’t good, people are not shy about making sure they are heard. Now Google is changing its search engine algorithm to take into [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Brendan O'Brien | November 17, 2009 
The U.S. rental vacancy rate is now the highest it has ever been, at 11.1%. This is not at all what we expected when the housing market crashed and mortgage companies started going out of business in record numbers. At that time, the prediction was that landlords would actually benefit, because people who weren’t able [...]
Read the full article → Landlord Tenant by Connie Brzowski | December 13, 2007Simon Lagree Had it All Wrong Without doubt, being a landlord requires a certain mindset. Before actually owning rent houses, I was certain I didn’t want to participate based on our first experience as tenants. Right after the wedding, the mister and I moved into a lovely little duplex on the edge of town. We [...]
Landlord Tenant by Connie Brzowski | December 1, 2007The mister and I waited years before buying our first rent house. Of all the various and sundry reasons for staying out of the game, our biggest obstacle was a severe case of Tenant-phobia– the crippling fear of Landlording. To make matters worse, anytime the subject came up, helpful friends and relatives regurgitated the same [...]
Landlord Tenant by Joshua Dorkin | March 21, 2007If you can’t get rid of them, raise their rent . . . Sometimes we end up in a situation where tenants aren’t the wonderful people we hope that they are. They throw out of control parties, damage the property, litter the property, have 10 people stay in the 2 br apartment, pay rent late, [...]
Commentary by Bea Chenowitz | December 15, 2006An article in the Sunday issue of the New York Times (“A House Divided: Uncivil War on E. 73rd Street,” December 10, 2006) describes a dispute between a landlord and an unhappy tenant in a tony Upper East Side brownstone of New York City. A battle like that is always a case of someone’s word [...]
Commentary by Joshua Dorkin | August 27, 2006After a long day of rest, I’ve emerged from my sports cocoon to bring you my Sunday wrap up. I’d like to first congratulate Tiger Woods for his 4th straight tournament win, and I want to wish Andre Agassi good luck in the final tournament of his career. Ok . . . back to real [...]
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Good Landlords vs. Bad Tenants? Let the Lawsuits Begin!
by Bea Chenowitz | December 15, 2006An article in the Sunday issue of the New York Times (“A House Divided: Uncivil War on E. 73rd Street,” December 10, 2006) describes a dispute between a landlord and an unhappy tenant in a tony Upper East Side brownstone of New York City. A battle like that is always a case of someone’s word [...]