Not sure about PA, but in NY if there are any lights in common areas the landlord needs a separate meter - you can just go count the meters on the house, if there are 5 then you know there is one for common areas.I wouldn’t use cap rates for a four unit, use comparable properties if possible.

I'll give the county a call to see what they can share on the permit count.

I've never done a fix and flip myself, I've always stuck with BRRRR because rents were the only thing that can be counted on.

- Kid Count - A lot of tenants don’t even understand how this works, and it changes somewhat often.

I'm Clayton from Fort Worth TX, passionate about real estate investing for two years and counting.

The hospital did recently undergo expansion, but I wouldn’t count on that alone to drive major change in the area’s economic profile anytime soon.If you need more specific insights on Trowbridge Ave or the surrounding area, feel free to reach out—I’d be happy to help!

However, it's definitely been tough to find solid deals that cash flow well as of late, at least on the long-term side I find it to be true, and counting on potential increased demand is a tough investing strategy. 

Was counted as  3 bed, 2 bath.

Just have your contractor rent a dumpster and pay for the cost to trash it and dump it and count it against their depositTwo - holdover tenant, which is when they stay past their lease end date.

In the listing, the house is a 3 bd / 2 ba so would we count the area we live in as another bedroom/ living space or would I’d using the bedroom rule for taxes, just say we rent out all the rooms, writing off 100% ?