by Guest Author | Last updated Dec 28, 2023 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
Want a profitable rental property, as a landlord? You can (and should) take all the standard steps to protect your investment from bad tenants. After collecting rental application forms, you run tenant screening reports, check the tenant’s previous rental...
by Guest Author | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
People often look to the millennial generation for an idea of where markets will trend. And with good reason — this is the largest generation since the baby boomers, and is expected to overtake the number of baby boomers in 2019 when trends hit 73 million millennials...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
You can only buy so many properties with conventional mortgage loans, before reaching lender caps. According to most conventional mortgage guidelines, ten properties is a hard ceiling. But even that is generous: most lenders balk if you have four mortgages. If you’re...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Property Management, Spark Blog |
“When I was your age, we actually had this thing called privacy!” Is privacy dead? Long live privacy? I’ll let the politicians and data pirates debate that point, but here’s what I do know: landlords and real estate investors are juicy targets for lawsuits, so they...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 10, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog |
Brady Hanna wanted to get out of the rat race almost as soon as he stepped into it. Six years ago, Brady stumbled across BiggerPockets, and realized he’d found his exit route: rental properties. He read articles on rental investing (sadly, it was before my time...
by Denise Supplee | Last updated Apr 16, 2024 | Spark Blog |
Being a mum of five should have made it much easier to deal with the disagreements of roommate-renters, right? Absolutely not! When you sign a lease agreement with more than one adult renter, things can get complicated quickly. What happens if one roommate moves out,...