All Forum Posts by: Kameron Starr

New to real estate in Ohio as of January 2021. Seeking advice regarding eviction. Long story short, tenant is currently 27 days late on rent and there have been other breaches of contract, such as they got a cat (we called them out and $50 more in rent now) and most recently their son (over 18) moved in without us knowing.. (haven’t brought that one up yet to them..)

I’d like to get them out legally, really so I can get some work done on the house and have a chance to make our lease agreement a little more bullet proof and actually choose the next tenants (this rental property came with someone already..purchased from in-laws)

Before being bold and putting an eviction notice on their door I wanted to check to see if there’s any gotchas I should be aware of? Especially with the ever changing policies related to covid. I also don’t want to pay a boat load in legal fees.. maybe the easier thing would just be to ride out the rest of the year and not renew the lease? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

So what are the cons/drawbacks of using OPM. My wife and I bought our first rental and are being persuaded strongly by some family members not to use OPM for additional rentals. They talk highly of Dave Ramesy. I looked into his ideology a bit and it’s pretty much completely opposite of everything I’ve been researching about real estate from Rich dad and BP books. That is don’t even consider buying rental properties unless you have 100% down. Thoughts?

@Mason Hickman

Thanks for that!

New to rentals as of 1/1/21. Bought property with tenant already living there. Tenant is responsible for utilities in lease but hasn’t paid utilities company yet. I just received notice that they will shut off utilities if they don’t get paid by 23rd. How should I handle this? I would like to enforce the contract and have tenant pay. However if they don’t then shutting off utilities will cause pipes to freeze and all other issues?? I don’t want to just pay the bill and make it seem like them paying utilities is optional?

I’m getting ready to purchase my first rental property. I think I will be able to manage myself, despite my full time 9-5 job. However I would like to try to grow to multiple rentals over the next couple years. Is there a rule of thumb on when to hire a property manager?