As some know, The Background Check Manual is free here on this website. It’s also available in worddoc or .pdf format via email if you’d rather have the entire e-book in one spot for reference purposes. The manual contains tons of information on identity verification, public records retrieval, etc. and includes links to state websites […]

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Whilest away thinking Deep Thoughts and being all Zen and Stuff with The New Plan, one of our tenants moved out. Things went  fairly well until we arrived on the premises for cleaning and make-ready.
We were greeted with this cheery sight:

Amongst Big-Shot real estate investors, this is what’s commonly known as ’A Clue’ as in ‘Something Here is Seriously Remiss […]

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When the mister and I started in real estate investment and landlording, we were blessed to find all sorts of free resources available on the internet and a great community of investors willing to share their collective wisdom. Hours were spent hanging out on REI forums asking some of the dumbest questions ever and folks with screennames […]

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In the beginning, The Fair Housing Act was intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, age, or national origin by landlords, mortgage companies, and others involved in the housing industry. Unfortunately, no law is perfect nor perfectly executed and in the past, activists have turned this law into one big […]

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On the last post, Maria asked, “What made you pick this tenant over the other applicants?”
That’s fairly simple– if 5 tenants apply and all qualify, we pick the first who turned in the application. In this case, our new tenant applied and we continued to show the house and accept applications until the lease was signed. […]

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