All Forum Posts by: Nick Rutkowski

Hello, I've got a single family home in Portland, OR and the tenants began hearing rats in the attic about a month ago. Since then I have located the area where they entered and sealed it off, however I'm having trouble killing the ones currently living in the attic. Has anyone had success with Rat poison and if so which one? I've been using Rat X and am convinced it doesn't actually kill them, currently just have snap traps in place. Any advice on the matter is greatly appreciated.

 I know it seems like this older lady has an intent to intimidate me, but hopefully she is just behaving this way because her mind is slipping later in life. A number of things seem like memory loss.

Is there a reliable way for to est income of a furnish / short term / airbnb  income

vs long time income ( I know this can be est looking at comparable posting in same area )

I have a 3 bed / 1 bath small townhome ( hoa approved ) I like to try to fully furnish and do airbnb / fully furnish rental

This unit is 1 mile from Banner Desert Medical Center ( traveling nurse ? )  Arizona

Arizona is a snow bird state, we have golf, baseball training, then a dead hot summer where nobody comes

how can I come up with some numbers before wasting time to look for furnitures and buying beds ?

thank you

Good morning,

I have a section 8 Tenant that is blasting music from  the evening hours of 6pm to 3am on a regular basis. This is a huge disturbance to my other tenants. Because of this, I put up a sign in the hallway that says we are now implementing quiet hours, and I gave each Tenant a piece of paper outlining quiet hours.

This specific tenant disregards quiet hours and continues to play their music loud. At this point, I’m ready to have them removed(evicted) because they’re disturbing the peace but I want to do things the right way. I currently have cameras, but they don’t give audio.  Also, their lease literally expires in less than a month. I’m going to talk to them today about the complaints that I am getting, but if this pursues, what exactly are my options in this situation? 

All help is appreciated and I feel really bad because my other tenants go to work and have children that go to school and they are not able to sleep properly because of the loud music.

Hi BP community, I know you've got some crazy tenant stories and I want to hear it.

I'll go first:

1) I was managing a 5 story apartment building and a dog fell off the 4th floor balcony because of the owner not paying attention. (It was Hollywood and everybody has dogs)

2) Somebody tried selling the appliances that came with the unit which included the fridge, dishwasher, stove & microwave.

3) We were recently affected by the fires and had to evacuate, some tenants refused to evacuate even after police forced them to because they were "tougher than the fire".

Hello everyone,

Please I need an advise on what to do. My tenants moved in September 2024and has been defaulting in paying rent from November 2024. They are still owing December rent and have informed me that they will not be paying January rent until Mid January 2025. Should I give them an eviction notice as I am scared that they will not move out and end up not paying the rent. I am new to real estate rental property. Thank you. 

This tenant I allowed to start a lease with last June is someone I want to give a notice to. I want their lease end date to be June 3rd. 

I had the lease wording that says in slightly different wording "This lease is for a year. After that either party can end the lease for any reason. There is no penalty for the tenant to end the lease at any time with a 30 day notice"...

And the reason I did this is because it is very important to me, with small town circumstances and dynamics for my family in the town the rental is located in, that the tenant not be disrespectful or unfair in any way. 

This tenant has very rude, accusing and agressive. There were lease violations disrespecting the other neighbor's leased space and harassing the other neighbor and they smoked in the property against lease, lied about conversations, has made up stories about plumbing issues that plumbers couldn't find causes to, tried to get a dehumidifier and force me to pay, accused me on two different occasions very agressively in regards to the heat/electric service. Yelled at me and said disparaging things to my face. Been late on rent. I have given them notices about these things. This past week has been trying to adopt a dog from the animal shelter. They never talked to me about it and instead just had the shelter call me repeatedly for permission. I didn't give it. Now they're texting me in an accusing way about how I let the neighbor have dogs and not her. I truly believe she had a medical condition and shouldn't even live in my house, should probably live in elderly housing or the like. Get a dog there. I do not trust her, plain and simple. 

I'm thinking I can just write a simple letter giving notice that the lease will end at the end of 12 months letter style without citing any specific reasons. 

What do you think? What would you do?

This may be more due to the state you're in than the tenant.

Hey guys, I am a real estate agent looking to get into property investing. I was wondering what are some good areas to look into for investing. I live in Upstate New York but i was thinking of areas more out west or down south. Thanks!