Many people are unaware that brick should NEVER Ever be painted as it is porous and absorbs water and needs to breath to dry out.

I have been told that it was done during the suburban boom in pop up developments when totally dry lumber was at a shortage.

I want another one just like it, but the multi-family market seems very dry at the moment.

I've been approved for loans but haven't found deals over for what I can afford at the moment Southern California. I am still trying to build my network by talking to family neighbors, and co-workers by telling them w...

Overall Handyman cost was $350 for new shower plumbing (2 water stems to one, patch retiling).

Or have a dry river bed, with pebbles, run through the yard or do some plantings that soften the lines.

I have a board across from my desk that has all my properties and their expenses/ income on it ( Quartet dry erase planner) i can tell you right now that the " average" cost per bedroom for a house where i invest, will cost me $175 / month. so a 4 bedroom house will run me $700 to run that house ( not including mortgage) but that's taxes, insurance, water/ sewer, utilities if i pay some, garbage, maintenance ( snow and lawn), leasing fee, and PM %. so when i look at a house to buy, i can do a quick analysis of it based on the amount of bedrooms and what my mortgage would be if i would make money, those are my standard " hard costs". yes if someone has to go there and do work, if its a contractor or one of their handyman, you will get charged for it, and that would come out of the money you allowed for such maintenance.

The office of 70 agents, and I was the only one that knew about trustee sale.Ironically, the reason I got into trustee sale in the first place because I got screwed over by an REO agent who double-ended a deal and left my offer high and dried from one of his colleagues in his office.

I have two other properties that have $100,000 in equity in them total, but that equity doesn't represent much more than about 30% and 40% respectively of the value of the home.There's also a COLLATERAL BALLOON option that I'm not familiar with but will talk with my banker about tomorrow.Really looking for creative ideas here while I rebuild my dry powder in cash and then start aggressively paying down these loans for the rentals I currently have and would like to add to my portfolio.

It seems pretty cut and dry.