All Forum Posts by: Tamara R.

I am in the exact situation now and would really like to know how it turned out. Mine is a little worse bc they want us to pay for 15000$ of pipe repairs from the shared pipe they use on our land and then want an easement to move it to a different spot to get to their own city sewer spot and not use ours. To get there from their place is more expensive since they have to go through their basement vs our yard but if they are refusing to help with cost now I do t want to be responsible for their line anyplace on our property. 
would love to find out what you learned. 

I have a similar situation but I have a prescriptive easement I didn’t know about where the neighbors pipe goes through my yard and basement. I Found out after it clogged on their end and flooded our basement with poop after rotorooter came out and it got hung up in our basement and backflooded poo. The pipe is old and probably couldn’t handle that much waste at one time since it had fractures in the clay. We have to dig out our entire basement so it doesn’t fill with poop again and is going to cost 15000$. They said they aren’t going to pay or help pay to fix it and want to move their pipe to another part of our property so they can attach to their own sewer stub at the road. It they would have to go through their basement and cut it if they use their property but it is easier for them to run it on ours since they have this prescriptive easement already but say they are only responsible for the part of the shared pipe on their property (3ft in their house out of 50fton our property, we use about 20 ft of it and they use the rest) they won’t help with repairs or cleanup of their poo in our basement and I really don’t want any other pipe of theirs on our property if I am responsible to fix them. They are mad I won’t sign an easement for them to move it. Do I have to pay for everything on my property when it is a shared sewer pipe?

@JD Martin

Thanks, I want to try to keep the peace and be a good neighbor. But if they are going to be difficult I really don’t want to deal with it at all. Is there any downside to them having an easement to the sewer that goes from their house through a corner of our property to their own sewer connect to the city? Do you know, Does having that easement lower my property value? There is something about the hookup at the street to where it had to be so far from the main that it ends up on the street in front of our yard so they would have to get their pipe there somehow from next door and not sure if they could even go through their property for that. So maybe they would have to go through ours?

Schitty situation. We just purchased a property to brrr. Last week the neighbor up the hill had a clogged toilet and had the rotorooter guys come out. When they cleared their drain our basement immediately filled up with poo...theirs. We found out that we were on a shared line we didn’t know about when we bought it and they were hooked into ours. I guess they used to do that a long time ago. The rotorooter guys said we were responsible for half the bill since it was a shared line even tho we never called them or had a problem and now they caused a giant poo mess in our basement bc tHe poo ball then blocked up at the end of our pipe where it hooks into city sewer and wasn’t connected well. We had to have a plumber come emergently and didn’t have time to ask permission to go in on it with the neighbor and just found out it was shared anyhow. We then had to have the reclamation people come out after we spent three hours shoveling the poo out. Our Insurance is deciding if they will pay for the reclamation cleaning and damages inside our basement but said they don’t pay to have the pipe fixed, only for our stuff that was damaged so the plumbing bill is on us. It’s between 3000-10000$ and digging up the entire basement now. Now the neighbor doesn’t want to pay the plumbing bill to fix our shared line bc it is in our basement and not in their property. We don’t want their poo in our basement again if their is ever another clog and we don’t want to pay for the line anytime they have a problem with it. We are down hill and they are above us so we don’t really care if there is a problem on that end bc it is just them we don’t share their part. They only use ours. We are probably going to have to cap it to work on it this week. Also it will be very difficult if possible at all for them to plug into the city sewer stub unless they go thru their basement and basement walls without an easement in our yard which would be much easier. I heard not to give an easement bc then your basically giving a part of your property up and it brings down the property value?

Does anyone know about these things or have dealt with them?

Should I give an easement if they ask or can the city force me to give an easement?

Should they have to pay half the bill to fix the shared part of the pipe in our basement? What about the damages to our stuff in the basement?

Any help or insight into this topic would be so much appreciated. Shite does roll down hill lol. I’ll remember that for the next house I buy.

@Reginald Ross

Who’s your cpa?

@Ralphie Hernandez

I am new also and just found out I am in the same boat. I am sure there is some way around it but I only have 3 properties this year so the cost for a good cpa is probably more than what I will save at this point until I get a couple more properties. Let me know if you end up figuring anything out. Looks like there are a lot of good suggestions.

Wondering if bargain and sales deeds are normal if the property owners died and the house is given to a charitable trust to sell. Would you buy a house with this kind of deed? Does it permanently mark the title for resale? If you wouldn’t would you ask them to change the deed and to what, and do you think they would? Just trying not to end up making a huge mistake. What would you do to hedge against what could happen on this deal? The title search only shows they owe taxes on it for 2019 of like 1500$. Not sure what to do. Any help would be awesome. It’s a great deal on a house I want but don’t want to end up doing something wrong. Thanks in advance for any advise.

What are the best apps to use for a general all around app that has the most regarding leases and paperwork for new renters, tax organizing and property profit statistics and any other aspects of owning a rental. Plus one that can also do direct deposit and split up utilities for the renters. I know there are some out there that do one or the other but is there any that encompass more than another? I would like to automate as much as I can. I also want to do my own screening. Does anyone have a good site to get the paperwork for leases and rental applications also? Would love to have an all in one spot. What do you use? Thanks in advance for sharing info.

I bought a single family home to change it into a up down duplex and the numbers seemed to work out pretty good considering I live in Oregon and rents are hard to cashflow here. I planned on just putting a door on the stairs to separate up and down and add a kitchen or kitchenette downstairs. I could have done it for 20-30,000 and lots of sweat equity but then my friend told me I need to do everything legal for a duplex if I am gong to have two different households there and scaring me with bad scenarios of not being insured if I didnt legally duplex it and had two households. I think I over rehabbed it and ended up doing way more to make it legally a duplex, which meant I ended up spending twice as much and realized it raises taxes, insurance, had to put in asphalt driveway, etc that I wasnt really planning on doing when I got it. Probably should have just done the door and kitchenette since it is just a blue collar neighborhood and nothing special. It was a great learning lesson and I know waaaay more than I did before, after making all of those mistakes. Didnt have all this info from BP prior. Just ran the calculator now and realized I am not really sure what are actual great numbers on some of the calcs. My house is in the Dalles OR. Here are the numbers it gave me. I know they are not fantastic but are they terrible? I got it for a decent deal at the time of 223,000, I thought, and put 10% down. Now will put 60,000 into the remodel so about 90,000 total cash out of pocket including the down with closing cost. My cash on cash ROI is only about 6% and will cashflow only 450$ a month now with CAP around 7% I think. I am not able to find similar places to compare the value it will be after I change it to duplex so I made super conservative of around what I have put into it so 290K$ since it will be worth a little more as a duplex as it did a house. Is this super terrible? Before I thought it would be cap above 10% and cashflow around 1100 with only 50k out of pocket. What are your good numbers for all the items on the calculators that you go by? (cash on cash, ROIs, Cap rates, etc...) I am gong into real estate for cashflow mostly but will buy hold or flip etc whatever works better. I am sure I am not the only one who has learned the hard way but I wont make the same mistakes now while I am looking for my next property and just glad I have a little cash left to get me into another better deal next time. Thank you for taking the time to look at the numbers.