If you’re new here (and you like what you read), you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! ScottYou may have read the Carnival of Real Estate where Trevor Mauch reviewed Quicken Rental Property software. Well, Trevor has done it again. Where the Quicken product is for users […]
There are many urban legends, rumors, and old wives’ tales surrounding owning investment real estate. Did you hear the one about the landlord not checking on his house for 3 years; when he finally went over there, the tenants had flooded the basement to grow fish to sell at the fish market?
Many of […]
Who mows the grass and shovels the snow at your investment properties? Maybe you do. Eventually you may want to ask one of your tenants to take care of the work. Here are some tips on how to make this a winning situation for you and your tenant:
Find a tenant that takes […]
At the end of October, I wrote a post about how I cut a corner in my tenant screening process and that mistake was probably going to cost me $2000 in lost rent and/or advertising/placement fees. You can read the full article here, but in summary I failed to connect with the prospective tenant’s Section […]
This is a strategy that some tenants will use to forgo or delay paying rent. Although this is a legal maneuver in the state of Minnesota, the tenant must follow strict guidelines or be subject to eviction. As a landlord, it is good to understand what items the court will be looking for […]
Have you ever rented to a celebrity? Maybe your tenant became a celebrity after they moved in. On the blog Landlord Shmandlord, the author writes about phenomenon that can only happen in San Francisco! A guy by the name of Justin started wearing a webcam around on his head 7×24 and streaming […]
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