Congrats on your success.

Good to heat that you weathered the Storm and had been prepared for it all.

Whoot!whoot! Awesome sauce!

Did some here just CONGRATULATE THESE PEOPLE? For keeping a place empty-- you said -- "didn't feel like it"? REALLY!!!

My gosh...

Just read another post-- turned over leasing to outside company.

FOLKS face it. Some of you should NOT have rentals or be in business.

No I'm not sorry to say that.

MYOB, I am still alive with no covid impairments. I did not have a non paying covid tenant sucking up my money while not paying the rent and then have that pain go on for 10 months with my stomach churning at the size of the heat bills. Though I advertised after the previous people left, there were no good prospects. No one was moving around here except unqualified people. Everyone qualified was buying houses from sad people whose parents or grandparents had just died. So I decided to stop trying. Sometimes decision making is an art and a science. And sometimes avoiding danger is important. My plumber would not visit houses with people in them and took only jobs on new construction.

That was so surprising -- the defense you put up. I'm a live also. Don't forget our Governor didn't put people in nursing homes that were sick.

First off I'm over 70 that meant at 70 I was out in it. I had 63 SFH's to take care of. So stop with the excuses. I been around the block.

You and many others have got more excuses then Carters got Liver Pills.

EDGE of what?

Oh so much worse up there-- WHY? Hey lets not get political.

That's it: the solar flares are increasing-- sunspots are on the rise. Aren't you on the same latitude as Norway? Same ultraviolet light there.

Again Alley more excuses to be lazy-- and I'm not just talking you and the posts-- look at some of the other posts-- its the same silly excuses. Then I'm a bully-- guess you didn't get the R yet.

So, my seven year, top to bottom reno doesn’t werk fer yer, huh, myob?

Lol! Of course it doesn’t. I allowed retired persons to apply, also people who want to stay for more than two years...

O.K. People. Time to take a break with the insults.

I am very happy that you rented your unit to good responsible people. I respect the fact that you waited. The choice was yours and you stuck it out.

I believe a persons health is top priority, as you do. No amount of money is worth a persons health. In fact I left my two units empty for several months, myself, because of covid. And why? Because I can afford to let them sit. Money is not a first factor for me either, but my health and my family's health is. Plus, why rent and have the wear and tear when the tenants, in Michigan, were not required to pay their rent. Why fume and have the stress.

I am 70 years young and worked hard for what I have. No payments, all paid for, in fact, 21 years ago.

I have a saying on my laptop. "The perfect Tenant is like Bigfoot. A few have seen, but I'm not sure they exist."

It makes me smile each time I read it. When I do get good tenants it is treasured.

You made the right choice and I respect you for it.

Busy I accept all. I deal with like persons on this site and others. Taking 2 yrs to finish a rental or 9 months to fill it is not the group I hang with! SORRY!

A person who leaves unit for 10 months but is posting here as an advisor-- it unbelievable.

Somehow it went from rentals to death rates-- WHY? because that's what the person knows-- if they knew rentals which by the way is what this site is about-- they wouldn't deflect the questions or answers to some jibberish.

WOOH WHOO Busy -- "they will be glad to have you as LL.

Too many here this is their business and livelihood.

Thats B S and u know it. OK you call it brag but it certainly wasn't whinny?????

They were not empty at all. 2 slow payers and 1 no pay who eventually aid 3K to catch up.

Belittle others-- you mean the ones dispensing "advise" who don't even rent their places out or take years to fix up? Newbies have no idea who you all are. I put my 63 out there so people know I'm not some dork wit one property.

Allym just to point out something about your thinking I'm bragging. When you see Robert from CA put in ever first sentence of his posts (almost every one) I'm a licensed hvac, plumber, electrician, yada yada yada-- do you think he's bragging each and ever time? Heck no he's not. Even though we all know his qual's some newbies don't. So Alley you read it and say gee's this person is qualified. I think that's a fair comparable even though I'm sure you don't.

I’m too stoopid to understand you, sometimes , myob. Totally don’t know what your point is in this.

Most of us are just congratulating Ally, as we know this year has been tough for many landlords. It’s good to hear she found some good tenants. And, I am confidant she keeps her places up, as you do too, myob. Difference is, I suspect that a stranger saying well done to you doesn’t make a speck of difference, myob. I think Ally may be a little more like me- I appreciate an ‘attaboy’ every now and then. Neither view is wrong, just different.

I guess Busy my point is this.Alley and some others here are posting as 3 star-- the experts-- top notch to take advice from.

She and a few others are posting how they left places 9 months empty-- another investor said several months/years fixing up. IS THAT WHAT NEWBIES ARE READING? Then on top of that some are HERE are praising her for leaving it empty!!!! EMPTY!

Is that pointed enough?

Those ideas will poison a new investor-- thinking and reading "gee it's OK"

Of course it's here decision and can do what she wants along with others-- it's great--- but because I call her out on what she's posting-- "I'm a bully". Again just hurtful stuff. Does having cancer or being 74 or moon beams in her eyes HAVE ONE IOTTA to do with RE Investing? No! of course not but posts are sprinkled with those references.