Imagine a property owner reviewing two financial reports for the same building. One comes from the owner portal. The other comes from the management company's financial statements. The numbers don't match. Naturally, the owner starts asking questions. The property manager investigates and discove...
I've started paying more attention to lawn care when working up rental numbers. It doesn't seem like much monthly, but across several properties it adds up. For those with single-family rentals, do you handle lawn care or leave it to the tenants?
We self-manage about 140 units in southwestern PA, mostly older single-family homes and small multifamily, with a two-person maintenance crew. Cleanout costs went from about $1,200 in September to about $3,400 in just the first 12 days of November. Nearly all of it came from three move-outs: Two ...
I read Airbnb's new house-rules policy (Help 4168/4169) in full and rewrote a friend's cabin listing against it last month — Rick's cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He agreed to be the example; the pack was delivered to him in October. Sharing what I found in case it helps anyone doing the same...
I bought into 50% ownership of this Lake Front Condo for pennies. Long Story. I've thought about offering this locally for someone else to make this a STR and do a long-term lease with me. I already have a lake house, so I have no desire to use it myself. I don't want to manage another STR right ...
Hi everyone! My sister and I self-manage two short-term rentals in Omaha, and I’m researching how property managers handle supply restocking. I’m looking to talk with people managing 2+ short-term rentals—especially those coordinating cleaners, ordering supplies, and tracking receipts across mult...
Hi everyone, my name is Brandon Zarin, and I'm 21 years old from the North/Central Jersey area. I'm interested in investing in Real Estate and ideally starting out with House hacking. I feel I am running into a few issues in my head and would love some advice from others. How do you find properti...
Most turnover advice is about what to do after the tenant leaves. We get to work on it earlier, because we build the houses and manage them, so every choice at the design stage shows up later in our own maintenance budget. A few that have earned their place: 1) LVP flooring. A pet or a dropped pa...
Hi everyone. I run REI Professions LLC in San Antonio. We work in owner finance and creative deals, and I am a student of this business like most of us here. Borrowers keep coming to me for financing I do not originate. Right now I have a local investor who needs a rental cash-out and a construct...
If I could go back and talk to my younger self when I first started buying rental properties, this is one of the conversations we'd have. One of the things that I think confuses people, especially because I'm the broker for a property management company, is they assume we manage tenants. They'll ...
Hi All, I am a new investor living in FL and looking to buy in Cleveland based on the research I've done in the past few months. I'm looking to get into a multifamily property first focused on cash flow. I am curious to see if anyone can recommend a good property management company and GC. Thanks...
My wife and I own a three-unit rental property in Buffalo’s Kaisertown neighborhood and are looking to transition from self-management to professional property management. We’re remote owners and want to hire someone we can trust to handle operations without sacrificing cash flow or property upke...
How to Make REAL Money in Real Estate We all (well many of us) know, or at least suspect that CREATIVITY is the key to real estate wealth, but WHAT does that mean? To me, it means being able to RECOGNIZE an opportunity to earn a substantial profit, understand the level of associated risk, and hav...
I am new to RE investment and I think I might have jumped the gun on setting up an LLC. I'm a resident of California. Originally, when I began to explore real estate investment, my plan was to start accumulating properties in CA, so I opened up an LLC here and am going to have to pay the $800 fra...
Every landlord I talk to has at least one piece of software they paid for, set up, and quietly stopped using a few months later. I've had my share of those. My wife and I have automated up to 95% of the daily work in our own businesses, but the first things we tried weren't the ones that stuck. W...
A Section 8 lease-up is not slow because the tenant is slow. It is slow because the steps run in order, and one missed step resets the clock. Here is how we run it across our 236 single-family doors in Memphis, mostly Section 8. First, the house has to be rent-ready on our 21-day turnover schedul...
I purchased a duplex in Indianapolis (46205) toward the end of 2025, and unfortunately, my experience with T&H Realty as the property manager has been extremely disappointing. The property had one occupied unit when I purchased it, and that tenant has been great. The duplex was also in reasonably...
I am a Kansas City based operator spending time on land near Branson, Missouri, and the more I look, the more one gap stands out. Branson hosts around ten million visitors a year. The development money follows them: attractions, luxury product, second homes, short term rentals. What does not get ...
Hello! I'm looking for my next rental in my market (northern NJ). I already have a 2-family home and would love another one. However, a single family (1 family) home fits my budget much more comfortably while a 2-family would be a stretch but still possible for me. There is also a larger inventor...
I listed my first Rental on Rentredi and I notice I getting canidates that are not within my Criteria. In my prequalifications I see canidates with questions like needing cosignier, below 500 credit score, felony charges over 20 years ago. I didnt post in my listing my criteria for fear of volati...
Hi everyone, I’m Joacim from Wellington, FL. I’m a serial entrepreneur getting started in real estate, looking for my first property to fix and flip or rent out. Ideally under $300k in South Florida, but open to other areas. I have time to put in the work and would love to connect with investor-f...
If you have plenty of capital to buy property’s completely without a loan should you? In this point in time when interest rates are in the 7’s
Hi, I am needing some advice from a property purchased in 2022 in Central Florida using the House Hack method. Of course, I am one of the 11.7% of FHA owners who bought in 2022 that went underwater. I am a realtor part time and full time RN. I was on a contract when Ian hit in 2022 and my contrac...
I am a software developer (not a host), and I am looking to understand how short-term rental operators manage cleaning coordination, with the goal of potentially building a solution. To be clear, I am not selling or promoting anything. I am simply researching to see if there is a genuine problem ...
Does anyone have experience using Vodyssey and their services? We just sold our home and am looking to reinvest in an STR. I am interested in using Vodyssey to do our first STR in order to make sure I do not miss any details. They also have a service that helps locate, setup and market and manage...