Are you a tenant? Have you paid your rent on time, not trashed the place, or had the police knock at your door at 3am for noise disturbance? Then you fit right in the category of good tenants. Congratulations! As a landlady, I have had my share of good and bad tenants. Luckily, they all… Read more
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The price of having a roommate
I have almost always lived with roommates and some of them were a pleasure to be around, while others were a real pain. With some we would make dinner together, or go out, and with other we wouldn’t talk for months. Obviously the first is nice while the later isn’t that great. When I moved… Read more
How I became a landlady
I have always had this financial independence idea in the back of my head, ever since I started working and realizing that a normal, 9 to 5 job is not the thing for me. And when thinking about how to produce passive income, real estate was always on the top of my head. This is… Read more
How I rented out my place on Airbnb
How I rented out my place on Airbnb I have lived in several flats for the past three years, one of them in Casablanca, Morocco, and the other one in Antigua Guatemala, a beautiful colonial town that is a UNESCO Heritage Site. Both those locations were desirable for tourists and when I looked up the possibility… Read more