All Forum Posts by: Karen Bickford

@George Yu Wow what an awesome accomplishment!

@Nathan G. Well said!

@Steve Rozenberg Great info!

I am entertaining the prospect of opening property management co and these are great guidelines.

@Casey Walker

You could require x day minimum between rentals. I do 5 days.

This way you could give the cleaners a better heads up.

Using a larger service vs individual may work better as they can accommodate last minute typically as their schedules change a lot due to size and volume. I also own a maid company as well as vacation rentals.

@Dave Rav

I would also make sure where you are planning to buy STR they are allowed.

More and more municipalities are banning them every day.

That’s awesome! I am going to try that for the next vacancy. It is a huge time suck showing to people that are not qualified or are tire kickers. 

@Bjorn Ahlblad

So prospective tenants are willing to fill out an application before even viewing the property? Sounds like a good gig if you can get it.

Good Morning BP,

I want to do a cash out refi on a condo that I own outright in Clearwater Beach Florida.  Because it is an investment condo as well as non-warrantable due to the less than 51% owner occupied the most they will loan is 60% at what I consider to be usurious rates.  

Does anyone know of a local bank in Clearwater Beach that will do a loan like this with better rates and higher LTV? It is NOT a condo-hotel. Thank you, any advice would be appreciated!

Has anyone heard of or used a company called Insurerent?  They are a rental guarantee insurance company that helps tenants with less than stellar credit or people that just moved to the US without prior credit history.