All Forum Posts by: Rebecca Lebowitz

Welcome!  I host a local meetup every month, always the last Wednesday of the month, at 7pm at Johnny's Irish Pub on Culver, near Merchants Rd.  Please join us, it's great networking and an opportunity to meet other like-minded investors!

Hi Everyone-

Mark your calendars-we are back for 2016 we are continuing to have a meetup for local Rochester NY area investors, hope everyone can make it!

Good to see you on BP!  See you soon at FFREIA meetings  :-)

Hi, and welcome to BP!  I believe I have heard of one lender that works with international investors, send me a PM for more info, I can give you his contact information.  

Best of luck!

Coming from a property manager, I'm always really distraught when I hear these stories, and sadly they happen far too frequently.   I've gotten calls from three investors in the past 2 weeks with similar stories from their previous property managers and it never ceases to stop upsetting me to hear these horror stories from my counterparts.

You said that it "seems" to be they falsified repairs-do you have proof of this?  You can demand access into your properties, with of course proper notification given to the tenants, if it's currently occupied.  Take pictures, then match with invoices (i.e-if they charged you for a new hot water tank but the ones in the property clearly are dated)

If there are Sec 8 or DSS tenants that possibly were placed there, you could check with the agencies and give them the addresses of the properties and see if they had been paying rent payments for those properties (note: they will NOT give you tenant info, but at this point you probably just want to know if there were tenants in there at all).  Of course you can match this with any documentation the PM stated the property was vacant.

Inflating invoices may be a bit more difficult to "prove" and get award damages, because a lot of times repairs can be subjective and depend on other factors surrounding the repair.  But depending on how egregious the invoice amount in relation to the repair was (using hot water tank example: $2k for a hot water tank, sometime outrageous like that) may be pursuable.

Best of luck to you, and I promise not all property managers are bad!

@Martin Grizzanti make sure to create a key word search to add 'Rochester NY' so you can see what's going on on the local scene.  And yes-definitely try and make it out tonight to Johnny's and also check out FFREIA-great resources in Rochester!

Just a reminder the Meetup is this Wednesday starting @ 7pm.   Last one of the year so make sure to come!

Hi Everyone-

Our last meetup of the YEAR will be Wednesday, October 28th @ 7pm!  We will NOT be meeting in November and December due to the holiday season.

So-everyone come out for the last 2015 Meetup at Johnny's Irish Pub on Culver Rd near Merchants-plenty of great food, beer and networking!

Welcome!  Hope to see you at upcoming FFREIA meetings and the monthly Real Estate Meetup on October 28th @ Johnny's Irish Pub!

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the monthly Rochester NY real estate investors meetup at Johnny's Irish Pub at 7pm.  It would be great to see lots of new faces!