Should You Spend Money on a Home Inspection?
There was a recent post in the BiggerPockets Forums on whether it is smart to hire a professional home inspector. There were many arguments for getting the home inspection done…
Landlording & Property Management
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The Three Step Process for Underwriting Your Next Tenant
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What I Look for in a Rental Property
I get asked quite a bit what I look for when I’m shopping for a rental property to buy. How do I know what I want or what qualities to…
7 Things Every Tenant Wants Their Landlord To Know
Just for fun, I polled some of my friends about what they, as tenants, would love to say to their landlord’s face. I told them to be brash and forthright.…
Should You Let Tenants Work on a House In Exchange for Rent Credit?
A few weeks ago, I was showing one of my units to a series of prospective tenants. One of the potential tenant applications asked, “Do you like the carpet?” I looked…
How to Determine Rent: 8 Tips for Making Sure You Are Charging the Correct Amount
Rent is simply a price. The price someone is willing to pay to use your property for a set period of time. This price is determined by hundreds (if not…
Should You Adjust Rent for Inflation? Nope. Here’s Why.
I keep a rent escalation clause in my leases. It states that the rent will rise by 3 percent each year, to keep pace with inflation. When I wrote it,…
Dealing with the Nitpicker Tenant
We all know the nitpicker type. The nitpicker is someone who never seems satisfied and is always finding something wrong. Nitpickers can drive you crazy. With most situations in life…
Don’t Just Hand Them The Keys, Use A Tenant Move In Process
Your property is move in ready. You have shown it to several potential tenants. You have screened your applicants and selected the person that best fits your criteria. Now all…
12 Easy Tips to Reduce Your Vacancy Rates and Find Great Tenants
There are a lot of things I’m not good at in life. Like softball. Or pick up lines (Do you have a band-aid? Cause I just skinned my knee when…
Five Ways to Eliminate Most Landlord/Tenant Adversity
Several years ago when I was just starting out as a real estate investor, I remember talking with another much more experienced investor at one of our local reia group…
How To Keep Tenants Longer…and a Strategy For Finding New Renters
As real estate investors, when we buy a property that we intend to rent to others, we’re doing so with the goal of receiving a return on our investment. Ideally,…
Should You Tell the Tenants that You Are the Owner? [Counterpoint]
This question seems to continually pop up on my radar, and I don’t know why – this seems pretty simple to me. What am I missing guys? (See Brandon’s article…
