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How I do an in-home interview This week I saw a feed where someone had asked the question “what three things people look for in potential tenants?” That got me curious because we don’t look for three, but four things in a potential tenant. As I read the responses, people listed things like credit scores they prefer and job stability. One said they were looking for someone who does not have an...
Finding good tenants I was at a lunch meetup this week where one of my friends was telling me about how they are moving away from the Padsplit company and going to self-manage instead. And the biggest reason for that has to do with the tenant selection process Padsplit uses. If you are not familiar with Padsplit, it is a novel idea. Instead of renting an entire house to one family, the...
It doesn’t float uphill Yesterday was a busy day for me, and it was not things that were planned. That can be either a good thing or bad thing depending on the circumstances. Mine was a combination of the two. Let me tell you about it. We just filled a nice two-bedroom one bath mobile home last week, which made for a busy week as well. The reason for that was we needed to get all the...
Substance over form I had an interesting case come across my desk this week that had to do with a lease option going bad. At first, I typed “gone bad,” but the situation has not fully resolved, so I changed it. But it’s a great illustration of what not to do as an investor and I thought I would tell you about it so you don’t make the same mistakes. Lease options have become a popular exit...
Soaking wet with three-day old pants I am soaking wet and quite a bit dirty right now. And if truth be told, I have had the same pair of pants on for three days straight. Now that may seem a bit odd, but let me explain. On Tuesday afternoon I got a call from a tenant. She was a little frantic because when she went to go make the baby a bottle, she noticed there was no water pressure on...