For those of you who rent to sec 8 with a large number of bedrooms. What is your turnover like? How much are your make readies? Do the families trash the place?
Ok its time to replace roofs on 2 of my properties! Who has used GAF for measurements? How accurate are they? Im and out of state investor who self manages and trying to get the material pricing for purchasing to be picked up by contractor. Or any recommendations on another way?
Landlords & real estate investors — what is ONE thing you wish your property manager did better? Not necessarily something that would make you fire them—just that one thing that consistently frustrates you or makes you think, “Why can't they just get this right?” Communication? Repairs? Tenant sc...
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT / CASH FLOW September 2026 5 Signs Your Rental Property Is Costing You Money A property can look profitable on paper while quietly draining cash through vacancy, deferred maintenance, weak tenant screening, and poor expense control. Here are five warning signs worth catching b...
A "no pets” policy does not automatically mean a tenant cannot have an assistance animal. Under Fair Housing requirements, a qualifying service or emotional support animal may be considered a reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability. That means the animal generally cannot be treate...
In my work with Maryland property owners, I have seen how much harder an unauthorized occupancy issue can become when it is discovered late. When a property sits empty and nobody has a record of who had access or what condition it was in, sorting out what happened can become much more difficult. ...
I own one rental and use a property manager. On the last big repair I couldn't tell which line items were fair and which were padded, and the percentage-of-project fee made it worse. Trying to find out whether that's just me. Eight questions, anonymous, two minutes: https://docs.google.com/forms/...
Hey everyone, I've been managing a few units myself while working, and maintenance dispatch has easily become the most annoying part of my day. Every time a tenant has a repair issue (like a leaking sink or HVAC problem), I find myself caught in an endless loop of phone tag. I text the tenant for...
PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE / PROPERTY OPERATIONS September 2026 A Preventative Maintenance Calendar That Protects Cash Flow Preventative maintenance turns surprise repairs into planned work. A simple seasonal calendar can help Cleveland, Akron, and Lorain landlords stay ahead of weather, equipment ...
For rental investors, when do you start considering DSCR financing instead of traditional financing? Is it the property's income potential, the investor's portfolio strategy, the simplicity of qualifying based on the property, or something else? What factors make DSCR attractive for your rental s...
Most new landlords think the security deposit is theirs to sort out on their own timeline. It isn't. Florida Statute 83.49 puts you on a strict clock and if you miss it, you don't lose the right to deduct for damage, you lose the right to keep anything, full stop, even if the tenant trashed the p...
Not selling anything, just trying to understand a workflow. Read a thread on here a while back where someone mentioned going line by line through their AppFolio owner statement PDF every month, manually re-entering it into QuickBooks because they wanted their own books, not just what the PM sends...
Hey BP Community, I’ve been following the discussions here for a while and wanted to officially introduce myself. My path into property management started with a legal background. While practicing law, I saw firsthand how quickly a small oversight in a lease, a delayed maintenance request, or an ...
As I'm looking to purchase a first property up here in New England (Vermont), the use of oil/propane for heating homes really drags down these cash flowing properties. I'm curious to know how much success you have had installing heat pumps as a primary heating source for tenants who would then co...
I screen listings against a hard money purchase test, and tenant-occupied rentals for sale keep producing the same answer. Houston, Harris County: 325 of them. San Antonio, Bexar County: 181. A twenty-zip corridor south and east of Houston: 25. That is 531 listings across three markets, and not o...
Set up my maintenance reserve budget when I bought my first property and honestly never touched the number again. Just kept saving the same amount every month.then I actually looked at it properly last month and realized the number I picked three years ago made no sense anymore. The roof was newe...
I have a duplex that both leases are due to renew in November. I am thinking April or June would be better months. April I feel like there is more tax money for people to get in to rentals. June I feel like school is ending and people have the availability for moving...
There’s a peculiar thing about owning real estate: most of the expensive things don’t send you a monthly bill. The bank does. The insurance company does. The property tax people certainly do. The roof doesn’t. Neither does the HVAC system. Or the plumbing. Or the electrical system. Or the windows...
Hello BP! I currently collect rents in paper checks/Venmo but I am looking to place all tenants in the same place. What site/apps you guys found that works best? Thanks!
I’m looking for some feedback from anyone who uses RentRedi to manage rental properties out of state. I currently use RentRedi for a rental property where I live and have had a good experience with it. I’m now considering using it to self-manage an out-of-state property instead of using a traditi...
Write your I’m a Detroit area investor and I’m curious about the challenges that out of state investors face when managing properties in Detroit remotely. If you own rentals or investment properties here but live elsewhere: What’s your biggest headache? Finding trustworthy contractors? Monitoring...
The most expensive part of a Baltimore rental isn't the rent you lose. It's the turnover between tenants. Landlords budget for a week of paint. Then the walkthrough happens and the week becomes six. **Budget the trash-out before you touch anything else.** A standard 2BR rowhouse trash-out — furni...
Hey all. I'm working on turning a SFH into a MTR for travel nurses, etc. I've read everything I can find on the city of Buffalo website, scoured the internet, scoured their various portals. I've called all the phone numbers listed. I simply cannot figure out how to even apply and pay for a rental...
When analyzing a potential rental, what's the first number you look at? Purchase price? Rent? Taxes? Cash flow? Debt service? Something else? I'm curious whether experienced investors have developed a consistent order for evaluating a property.
Looking for advice from some experienced landlords! In short, we have a tenant whose lease started July 1,2019. Since she moved in her requests and complaints have been incessant. From the initial walkthrough, lease was already signed, my husband sensed that things would be very different from ou...