Tenants should definitely not use common areas to store stuff or use the common area electrical.Document everything via email about notices, and just do everything politely and with respect.

If you market your rentals and ask prospective tenants to fill out credit/employment/ criminal background checks first could be very likely a Fair Housing violation!

Midwest is common to find 100-150K price points. 

We have a cleaner who does deep cleaning at the end of each month, and another who handles two hours of common area cleaning mid-month.

For BRRRR-friendly states, I’d target landlord‑leaning, steady‑growth, midwestern and southeast markets where the rent‑to‑price math works and 2–4 units are common.

That's not necessarily true, if you file an LLC as an S-Corp you can save some tax liability on self employment taxes.

The most common test used is the 100 hours and more than anyone else test.For example, if you acquired a $500,000 STR after January 19th, 2025, you could accelerate $100,000 of losses with the help of a cost segregation study.

Over the past couple of years, rental application fraud has exploded — fake IDs, forged pay stubs, and “shared” identities are way more common now.

Chattanooga, TN - Major employers are Erlanger Hospital, Amazon, Volkswagen, Bluecross Blueshield, Mckee Foods Corporation and Novonix.

Although, locking a loan is not that common in private money.Any lender asking for a deposit is trying to scam the client apart from a large commercial loan.