Hello I’m looking into Arlington VA and the surrounding area I’m not familiar with the market and was hoping someone could give me insight, Personally I lean towards multifamily but is apartment living popular in this area?

If so, the vinyl may be expanding too much (i.e. the window was not built correctly)(2) If all windows are doing this, is there structural problems with the building (i.e. do you see cracking in the masonry).You would not be able to screw in the vinyl as that will only cause more future damageIf all windows are doing this, I would lean towards faulty windows but hard to tell without being there to see it. 

Having been through some of those lean years myself I started doing real estate just to try to survive. 

Again, leaning toward a safer investment over cash returns. 

@Tyler Bodi Hey Tyler.

The most challenging part for me is going to be running the numbers and analyzing the deal but I have people I can lean on for that and then there’s always here ☺️

Hi BP,I have a friend of mine bought a land through tax foreclosure auction...he bought it without doing any due diligence ahead of time, anyways he found out its a very small lot and worth nothing if he is trying to sell.The appraisal value is $12k and he paid a bit less but no body would buy such lot on the market...somebody told him to donate the land to the city or the county or some sort of organization that helps people and file it on his tax return as deduction. my questions are: 1- Any suggestions who to target to donate the land 2- If he donated the land can he file it as a loss or deduct it from his tax refund at the end of the year...he is entitled to pay some capital gain taxes on other properties he sold so this deduction will definitely help.3- If point 2 is doable will he be able to file based on the appraisal value $12k?

Personally, I believe the best way to lean how to manage real estate is to do it yourself (warts and all)Why are you brining in an agent at the end of the process? 

Either way, both units are vacant and I'm leaning strongly toward listing the house, even if staging and all the other costs are high, to see what offers come in... you're right that we may miss out otherwise. 

I've been leaning heavily toward trying to dump it for about a year.