Chris Schoonhoven
Best US Markets to House Hack
31 July 2024 | 35 replies
I had a property rejected for city certification (to use as a rental) because the windows were 1/8 of an inch too small.
Bora O.
Bad #s in The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
22 July 2024 | 6 replies
Yep same when he goes over the % rule in ch 5. 2000 rent / 300,000 pp = 1.5% mmmm NO.
Anthony Vander Meer
Is the 3x rule really necessary?
22 July 2024 | 17 replies
If not, to give an inch they would have to have no other negatives.
Jeff Gammon
Adding a mini split in a rental?
18 July 2024 | 5 replies
This video is informative, but I wish the narrator more emphasized the lethal voltages within one inch of his finger.
Daniel Bedell
How I Built An Amazing STR The SUPER HARD WAY!
18 July 2024 | 0 replies
True, I never built anything more than a treehouse when I was eleven, but technically a treehouse is a house so…All I had to do was work with Honomobo to finalize the design, get architectural drawings, receive HOA approval, get a county building permit, get a driveway permit, clear trees for a build site, find a logging truck to take those trees to a lumber mill, find a mill, find someone to take the lumber from the mill to my house, dry the lumber, take a semester of woodworking to learn how to make furniture, engineer/permit/build a septic system, get a well permitted and drilled, install a well pump, learn what a pitless is, install a water line from the pump to the foundation, install a pressure tank, connect the house plumbing to the septic and pressure tank, get the the power company to permit and install a podium for power on site, run power to the foundation, connect the power to the house, engineer a foundation, excavate, get two different sized steel wet plates fabricated, pour said foundation with wet plates mounted all at the same elevation in twenty-five precise locations, hire a crane, hire rigger, hire a welder, build a retaining wall because the dropoff from house to ground level was higher than expected, insulate the crawl space on my own by watching a YouTube video to learn how to load .22 caliber cartridges into a ramstead gun and shoot two and a half inch nails through insulation board into my foundation, badger a supply company until they finally delivered the right insulation board, get them to take away the wrong insulation board they brought that was broken by the wind and scattered into pieces all over the property, find an illusive 3x3 foot crawlspace door, learn how to use a core drill to make a four and a half inch hole in my foundation to install a code required fan to vent the crawlspace that my engineer thought was a stupid requirement and failed to tell me about, figure out what the hell going on when the Honomobo project manager tells me the measurements you gave him of the now poured foundation are wrong, have a panic attack, review plans with engineer, realized the project manager was mistaken, scream into the void, get the last available short term rental license application that had a thirty-day expiration window to pass all inspections, coordinate all subcontractors needed on install day, check with the sheriff about parking semi-trucks on the road, rent a porta potty, rent a dumpster, have coffee and donuts for everyone, oversee the Honomobo install crew that didn’t need overseeing, pass a blower test, pass state inspection, pass septic inspection, build a wooden curb to cover protruding rebar for an unpoured patio, build a temporary front door landing that could theoretically be be permanent so as to pass final county inspection, get a certificate of occupancy, pass the county short term rental inspection on the very last day before it expired to get the very last available license so that I could rent the house to make money in order to no have immediately have to sell, pour the sidewalk and patio.
Christian Maher
I purchased a home to BRRR in Cuyahoga County and I need some advice
20 July 2024 | 22 replies
Shes all in 160k, it better be in CH, South Euclid or best part of the west side.
Kevin S.
Question about disclosing foundation issue after it has been addressed.
15 July 2024 | 5 replies
The foundation settled 7/10 inch on that side of the house.
Henry Lazerow
The new NAR rules have actually made buyer agent commissions go up not down
19 July 2024 | 100 replies
I gave an interview to Axios last December where I predicted that average commission rates were likely to go higher due to due to the likely outcome of the class action suit.Sure enough, a settlement was announced months later, and sure enough average commissions rates have been inching higher, and will continue to do so.
AJ Wong
It's HOT! Investors escape to the cool, green Oregon Coast for climate safe STR's
14 July 2024 | 15 replies
Mean sea level averaged across the entire world is around 2 mm/year, or 6-8 inches/100 years.
Sam Booth
Curb appeal for thus duplex?
8 July 2024 | 12 replies
At minimum, all the overgrown landscaping should be trimmed back, if not completely removed with some fresh mulch and new plants planted.