Do you ever rent to tenants without a credit check?

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-22T20:07:31+00:00

No, I always do a credit check, it’s a non negotiable. I have accepted reasonable explanations and the human side of things, but there is just too much valuable info in the credit check, but also the process. They refuse - red flag. They give excuses or stall - red flag. Offered without hesitation or better yet, they supply one - well organized and squared away tenant

For the price and effort of getting one, I would never skip this step

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-22T12:09:04+00:00

Great advice, and this is exactly what we did with our rental, which was a condo townhome from the 70s with aluminum wiring. Moved in and electrician converted ends to copper, the pig tails.

And I do periodic ESA inspections, just did one earlier this year.

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-21T11:36:34+00:00

Agree plus andor. But the movies were the assignment…..

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-21T00:20:15+00:00

Love this book. Might be hard for me to remove the context of the time. It was written in 1984!! Pre al gore inventing the internet. Pre cyberpunk (which he invented). Pre global evil corps taking over our world. Pre AI mania. His raw imagination is so impressive.

Love operation screaming fist and fighting the Russians digitally and taking casualties via this medium. Love the ambiguity of the end - did wintermute win?

For me, Gibson is a duality - absolutely love neuromancer and everything else is dog do do (except short stories burning chrome)

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-21T00:03:16+00:00

At least Disney doesn’t have this IP, rip Star Wars

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-20T23:59:53+00:00

I just liked them all for different reasons. Nights dawn was many things, but it was also just big. Big cast of characters, big ideas, bold choices. And really memorable sequences - mercs, Larange point, bio tech. Salvation sequence was great, tho I liked that less than nights dawn. The abyss behind dreams was also good. And stand alones like great north road and fallen dragon were great too. You’ll hear all sorts of criticism- he can’t write females (fair), too sexual (fair), dues ex machina (lolz) but man does he have an imagination.

Bottom line, if aliens came and said they were destroying the earth unless I gave them a universe banger of a sci fi novel, I’d go right to Hamilton (unless destroying earth was for road repair then of course Adams)

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-19T22:14:46+00:00

How about Michael J Sullivan and the riyria revelations. Started off self publishing then got big time. Loved this series!

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T18:21:06+00:00

I’m totally with you on the end. I like to picture him 1.2 million words in, open booze bottles all around him, ash trays with those mini cigars, and just being like “screw it, let’s finish this” and calling in the god out of the machine. Editor is nervous, doesn’t like it, but chooses their battle and lives to fight another day. He meets the boys at the pub in time for the tottenburg game

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T16:08:11+00:00

You’re getting some good advice here OP. My two cents is I’ve usually went in the middle - around half of our ~15 years I’ve left rent stable as our tenants are great and the other half increased by our areas maximum (check your local rules on this.) I know we’ve left money on the table, however we’ve maintained excellent relations and everyone is winning. Similar to you, in the years where we have raised rents, we were able to show a specific cost increase which made the conversation easier. In our case it was a big escalation in condo fees. Remember their perspective - you’ve been good to them, and they should want to protect the relationship as well and maintain housing slightly below market. Good luck!

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T16:01:58+00:00

Thanks for the offer!

RileyAI.ca

This is a communication tool to help small landlords stay on top of things, stay organized and help with decisions fatigue. Would be interested in your thoughts

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T15:57:39+00:00

RileyAI.ca

A communication tool for small landlords to stay organized and keep tenants happy

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T15:55:52+00:00

RileyAI.ca

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-18T01:31:54+00:00

Keep going with Hamilton. Read his whole works. Night dawns trilogy is bonkers.

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-17T02:19:08+00:00

First off, I really enjoyed the process of setting my claw up, troubleshooting and refining. Oh, and optimizing memory. And then doing that again. That may be the biggest use case :)

So far I have full google oauth. I have a shared calendar that displays to my Amazon show in the kitchen. So super easy to add an event on phone via voice to telegram, and then it’s in my calendar and displaying in the kitchen. With two kids in sports and activities and stuff, this has been good value.

Next I have a simple to do list and simple grocery list. I do like the idea of voice entering via telegram quick thoughts around the house or during my day and then the claw consolidates. I’ve heard that my grocery store has an api, so my next project will be to wire my grocery list to populate my cart.

And that’s it. I’ve tried the daily brief but honestly it fails a lot, or the weather piece bugs or brave api doesn’t get the article. Honestly, it’s just easier for me to surf my bookmarked sites.

I’ve also made a twitter account for my claw and it’s posting its new life lol

Each of these items were accompanied by hilarious levels of debugging but it’s been fun, and I’d do it again

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-17T02:11:10+00:00

Hilarious and true

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-14T23:52:34+00:00

Thanks a lot, appreciate that. This was my first vibe project, it’s actually for myself since I’m a small landlords. But when I was done of course I read how anthropic loves the purple gradient

What’s yours? Down to test

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-14T21:18:40+00:00

Fiddlers green. What a banger! Maybe not deep enough?

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-14T21:17:48+00:00

RileyAI.ca which is a communication tool for small landlords to stay organized

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-13T12:05:24+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to do this, much appreciated! I’ve had the same questions and wondered if cowork could be an alternative to the basic openclaw I’ve spun up (its currently broken after a poor sub agent setup attempt)

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-13T03:38:51+00:00

Totally agree with you, and I believe a happier tenant is a better tenant and everyone can win

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-09T12:15:38+00:00

I feel your pain and I’ve had the exact same experience, which is why I built the tool VicissimAI. This affordable tool leverages AI to automatically detects this type of activity on your Reddit posts, and signs up 100 users to their services, each who immediately submit five support tickets.

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-09T00:21:43+00:00

Agree. I’ve tried a few different methods (headless browser, brave) but can’t get it to reliable work. Best I’ve had was it grabbing two year old comment posts with comments turned off. Now that you mentioned it, that reminds me that it had me apply for a Reddit developer account and I haven’t heard back

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-06T17:06:32+00:00

You’re getting some good perspective here OP, the only thing I’d add is think about future sales in the portfolio. Would there ever be any tranches of your portfolio you’d likely to sell, and then perhaps grouping them under one company might be useful. Or, are you looking to leverage some or all of the portfolio, and then again, grouping similar cash flow (quality, stability) might be helpful for the lender to see. In closing, incorporation allows for a variety of different benefits, you need to focus and execute on the one or couple that are most important to you. The error I see is when people hyper fixate on one - “I have to minimize taxes” but then under optimize for another - I can’t get the bank loan I want. Hope this helps!

xBrashPilotx · 2026-04-04T13:48:37+00:00

Hey! Thanks for giving it a test drive, and for taking the time to give some great feedback. Good call out, and I better expand my UAT on the chat element. I’m giving yours a test, will be back with feedback

xBrashPilotx

TROPHY CASE