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UHaul help
Family made a reservation for a U-Haul truck this Friday. U-Haul doesn't have a truck available. All is chaos. [more inside]
Personal experience restoring matted carpet?
Hi! I'm looking for personal tales of DIY restoration of matted wall-to-wall carpet, presumably with a carpet rake and a steamer or some other device. I don't expect it to be perfect--I just want it to be good enough to rent to fairly well-to-do students. Considering the high price of putting down a new floor, cost is no object for this question. Thank you!
Paid a fee due to fraudulent misrepresentation.
What are my options? [more inside]
Looking for perspective on 'sell/hold' for one-off rental property
In the middle of financial transition and trying to properly evaluate what seems like a complicated set of risks and time-value issues. [details inside] [more inside]
when do they usually do a credit check for rentals?
[Massachusetts, USA]: at what stage in the rental application process is typical for property management companies to do a credit check? What if there's a waitlist? [more inside]
Living in mom's basement, legal-like
We are consolidating households with my mother in her home, and I'm trying to think through all the issues we need to make sure we handle. [more inside]
Travel insurance for chateau rental for 1 week?
A US-citizen friend is going to rent a chateau in France for 1 week for 8 people for a Big Life Event this fall (not a big party, no activities beyond people staying there). Rental is a nonrefundable $10k, and a $3k damage deposit on top of that. She wants to know if there are insurance/travel insurance products that can protect this amount.... [more inside]
Secluded cabin in CA/OR
We want to get away to a small, secluded cabin in CA or OR soon. Where is it? [more inside]
Advice/timing for returning a rental car to LAX and flying home
I’m on vacation in LA, staying near the Santa Monica Pier. I’ve got a rental car I need to return. My fight is at 11:55 AM PT this Sunday, Jan 7. How long should I count on it taking to get from my hotel to the gate? What’a good time to leave? (I’ve been hearing scary stuff about construction around the airport leading to super-long times from the car rental to the gate) [more inside]
Let me out!
I'm facing challenges with my art/music studio space due to noise from other tenants in the building, limiting my usage to just a few hours weekly. I'm considering discussing with my landlord about either reducing my rent or letting me out of my lease. [more inside]
DIY Collage Frame?
I have an absolute whackload of art pieces that are framed in cheap plain black frames. I want to hang them on my (rented) walls in various gallery walls and was thinking that to minimize the number of holes that need to go in my (rented) walls, maybe I could glue the smaller frames together as a collage frame first and then hang it from one or two holes instead of like 16 holes. Is this plausible? Do you have any advice on how to do it? [more inside]
Short-term London housing: how to?
I need to rent a flat for a month or two while I get my bearings. I've lived here for a couple years, but I've not been in this situation before. How do Londoners do this without agreeing to live in a shithole on a year lease? [more inside]
Renting a car -- advice?
I have not rented a car in a long time and it always makes me anxious -- what insurance do I need? What does my (Bank of America) credit card cover? Am I being tricked into a car I don't want? Why is this so expensive? [more inside]
Moving on up!
Where do people find apartments in Los Angeles these days? [more inside]
Manageable long term car rental or alternative
We need a temporary vehicle due to car repairs for up to 3 months or possibly more. Insurance will pay for one month. Traditional car rental long term looks prohibitively expensive. What do people do in these situations? Are car subscription services a good idea?
(I saw a previous question but it was posted during the height of the pandemic so I figured there might be different information) [more inside]
Are rental cars in Los Angeles really as cheap as they seem?
Why are rental cars in Los Angeles so cheap? Am I missing something? I'm going to Southern California and renting a car for 9 days comes out to about the same cost as it would just to Uber from the airport to my parent's house and back to the airport. [more inside]
How to buy a car for just one year?
I don’t currently have or need a car. In June, I’m moving to a new city for 1 year, after which I move back home. It’s a town that you need a car in, though with the intensity of my job and a nonexistent commute, I’m probably only going to use said car 2-3x per week. What’s the smart move here? I’d be tempted to buy a crappy used car for the year but I won’t have the time or mental bandwidth to deal with car troubles. Buying something expensive, though, seems silly given how little I’m going to end up using it before reselling whatever I get. What do?
Renting chairs for a wedding at the Peristyle in Prospect Park
I've got a small family wedding planned in August at the Peristyle in Prospect Park. Is there any way I can rent 30 chairs for a Friday morning and have them delivered? If not, how can we make good choices about minimizing time and stress? [more inside]
Trustworthy car rental in Rio?
I need to rent a car in Rio, near Leblon and Ipanema. Which company to choose? [more inside]
We lost hot water in our apartment, Not sure how to proceed w/management
Current Problem: On Saturday the hot water in our apartment suddenly turned tepid/luke warm and hasn’t returned to normal since. Maintenance's response to my repair request was not encouraging. [more inside]
How do I get my mom out of this equipment rental mess?
So I recently found out that my elderly mother has been renting her hot water heater for the last TWENTY YEARS. Worse, she doesn't have a copy of her supposed rental contract and has no idea what the terms are. The company is, unsurprisingly, not very helpful. How do I fix this? [more inside]
Will being the rent middleperson complicate my taxes?
You are not my tax professional. But maybe you can share some knowledge! My taxes are generally dead simple. I have one job. I pay taxes on that income. Boom, done. However this year might be messier. [more inside]
Excessive late fees
I accidentally made a car rental booking for a day short of what I had planned. The rental car company policy says I have to pay a huge late fee. This is in the USA (North Carolina). I am about to return the car 24 hours late. Any ideas for how to avoid the fee ?
New house, big anxiety
I just bought a house, and for a variety of reasons, I'm starting to feel like I can't handle moving in right away. Can/should I keep my apartment and rent out the new place for a while until I'm ready? [more inside]
How do I find my fantasy European village rental flat?
I am taking a last-minute month-long sabbatical. In my mind, I spend the month in a flat in a little village where I can walk to a bookshop that sells wine, and take a bike ride to a pasture where there are goats. For practical purposes, it needs to be reachable by train from Poland and not somewhere I will die from the heat wave. How do I find this place? [more inside]
Does collateral change renter qualifications?
I have mediocre to poor credit, but also own a house. I will however need to rent an apartment in another location, without selling the house. Will the fact that I have very good collateral (and they could lien my property if I didn't pay) make landlords more willing to take me? If not are there other things I could do in the short term? [more inside]
Personal finance, being a landlord, tenant rights, Boston, oh my!!
Hi! When we move out of Boston, we are considering renting out our house. I'm having trouble finding advice/considerations with regards to this. Specific questions: [more inside]
No hot water in vacation rental - what can I expect?
Hot water heater died at our vacation rental. What’s next? [more inside]
vacation house-type rental platforms that respect taxes/locals/etc.
I'm dubious of "sharing economy" platforms like Airbnb, because they tend to "damag[e] communities and push[] vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk" and dodge taxes and regulations (as Tom Slee writes). If I want to book a house, cottage, cabin, or similar lodging in the US (especially in New England), what platforms are more friendly to my values? [more inside]
Trains vs rental car in Cote D'Azur
We're planning a trip to Nice in June and I'm trying to decide whether to rent a car or not. Can you help? [more inside]
Do I need an International Driver's Permit to rent a car in Spain?
I have a valid, full, Canadian drivers license. I've booked a rental car in Spain. Do I need to also get an International Driver’s Permit (IDP)? [more inside]
Cheap but decent accommodation on Manhattan
Heading over in October and would like to stay pretty centrally on Manhattan.
The mrs is really into hotels, I am open to other alternatives. Own bathroom a must, walkup a no-go due to lack of fitness. [more inside]
How to find sublets north of Boston?
How does one find a college summer sublet to rent, north of metro Boston (Lowell/Andover/Lawrence area)? [more inside]
Am I a landlord?
You are not my lawyer or my tax accountant. My wife and I own a house occupied by her parents. We have no written lease and no intent to ever have to exercise the sort of provisions a lease covers. Nonetheless, they have been making regular payments to us monthly to defray the mortgage (their payments are well below market rate for a rental in our area). From a tax perspective, is this rental income, or a family gift? [more inside]
What’s the best way to search rentals in 2022?
I’m going to be looking for a 1-2 bedroom apartment in Westchester County, NY within a couple months. The last time I searched for an apartment from scratch on my own it was… 2011. Then, Craigslist was the place to look. Where’s the best place to look now?
How do I rent our place?
We might need to rent our condo. How do I even start doing that? [more inside]
Help me find a NYC apartment (and my sanity)
I'm in the process of searching for a studio/one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn without success and despair is setting in. How can I step up my apartment search game? [more inside]
Rental garage door is developing issues; advice?
I rent a house and the garage door has over the past two months opened itself three times. Two of those times were not witnessed; once was fully observed. That time, it touched down as requested but then went immediately back up again on its own.
When halted and sent back, it stayed down the second time. My landlord is not very responsive but when pushed strategically will send help depending on his assessment and how much I bug him. Should I bug him or is this fixable by me? [more inside]
PDX Rental/Lease question - Lease fee with key exchange
PDX/Oregon: A friend is being told they're obligated to pay a lease break fee, when Iiterally just signing a lease within a week, and may need to break for emergency. Less than reasonable. [more inside]
New House! Redo Kitchen Now or Wait?
I'm about to buy my first house - yay! The kitchen is pretty new but not very functional. Fix it now or wait a while? [more inside]
Should we live in two homes, assisted by AirBnB?
Me and my wife own a house in LA. We're sort of tired of city life, for now, and want to spend most of our time outside of the city. We have enough money for a down payment for a (modest) place in the Joshua Tree area. However, paying two mortgages would be ridiculous and beyond our means. What we want to do is make both homes AirBnB ready, such that we could move back and forth as desired, while recouping the mortgage on the property we weren't staying at. What could go horrifically wrong here? [more inside]
Cat advice, vacation rental advice
how do I protect wall-to-wall carpeting from dementia and incontinence?
due to some fairly sudden and serious health concerns, my elderly in-laws have had to sell their house and move into a rental apartment. due to their compressed timeline and the current state of the housing market, the only apartment they could find comes with wall-to-wall carpeting. since the health issues in question include dementia and incontinence, we're trying to figure out how to prevent the carpeting from taking too much abuse. [more inside]
Is there a required temperature range for Denver apartments?
Is there a temperature range a landlord is supposed to have their apartments within? My apartment is typically between 40-60 degrees. I have reached out to the landlord and they are shrugging their shoulders and saying that there is nothing they can do. [more inside]
How best to find a room for rent? - Denver, CO
I'm having no luck so far finding a place to live in Denver. I only just arrived in town and just need a single room (with roommate(s)), and the queries I've sent from ads I have seen have only come back with silence. Looking for resources/approaches to help my search. [more inside]
Will I have a rental car when I arrive?
I have a week-long rental car reservation with Enterprise through Costco starting in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks. Can I expect that I will in fact have a rental car when I arrive with the current rental car shortage? What sort of alternative plans should I consider if a car isn't available? [more inside]
Relocate to not get passed over by new CO law - another state or Mexico?
I just had my candidacy for a job revoked because I live in Colorado. Our new Equal Pay requiring salary transparency is pushing companies away from hiring Colorado residents. (news investigation) I'm in desperate need of a temporary place to stay and rent in CO is too damn high! Might my job chances be better if in another state? Also, temporary Mexico City furnished apts. are cheap in nice parts of town. I'm a US citizen BTW. [more inside]
Car rental pick up/dropoff times at DTW?
Hello - I know that Detroit is experiencing some heavy flooding this week, but I am planning travel in the next many weeks there, and reading about hours-long waits to pick up and or return rental cars to other destinations is making me a little anxious about how it is there (under non-flooding conditions.) Has anyone been there recently and picked up a rental car at the airport?
real estate professional search
What kind of professional do I need to help me rent out an apartment? And how do I find such a person? I am in NYC. [more inside]
Un-gross my floors
My textured laminate flooring never quite feels clean. What am I doing wrong? [more inside]