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I've held raw land for years and never had a tenant, so the fee mechanics are new to me. A manager quoted me 10 percent and I assumed that meant 10 percent of the $1,700 rent, so…
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I do due diligence on passive positions for a living and I've somehow never bought a house myself, so I'm trying to build the cash requirement from the bottom up rather than trust…
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Coming into this from a completely different career, so the insurance vocabulary is where I'm getting tangled. I read that a landlord policy includes "loss of rent" coverage and I…
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Looking at a 3/2 in a subdivision built maybe eight years ago, about 90 houses, and the price and rent look like they'd work for me on a first rental. Then I pulled the CC&Rs off…
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I run small multifamily and every unit has taught me something, mostly about shared systems. Now I'm looking at a detached house for the first time and I want to know which of my…
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I've been holding land and I'm looking at putting some of it into an actual rented house, so I'm building the comparison from scratch and I don't trust my own conclusion yet. Deal…
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I run management for a handful of scattered SFR owners and one of them just pushed back hard on my fee schedule. He wants 8 percent flat, no leasing fee, no renewal fee, no markup…