27 May 2024 | 14 replies
@Richard Hoyte When calculating your expenses and income you also need to allow for things like lawn care/snow removal if applicable as well as set aside an amount each month for repairs and maintenance, CapEx, and vacancy.
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25 May 2024 | 2 replies
SierraI would set up another bank account in which you pay invoices for pool, lawn, taxes for hotel/motel occupancy, licenses, your management fee and owner proceeds.
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24 May 2024 | 5 replies
In this case, the advantage of investing in the US or Canada was the ability to leverage through borrowing at artificially low interest rates.
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24 May 2024 | 1 reply
Learn from him rather than forming some kind of artificial business relationship.
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26 May 2024 | 28 replies
(actually exterior first, also lawn, landscaping) You can pay for the materials using money from your HELOC.
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23 May 2024 | 11 replies
I know the slanted walls are hard for that, but adding a few pieces where you can, and maybe a few artificial plants in pots would help warm it up.
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23 May 2024 | 43 replies
I always have nice looking places with mowed lawns, clean porches and clean houses.
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21 May 2024 | 4 replies
Looking at all the options on Zillow Rentals it seems like there's a lot of places falling apart and landlords want their tenants to pay for everything (no washer/dryer included, lawn care not included, first $100 of any maintenance requests, etc).
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19 May 2024 | 1 reply
Has anyone used AI services to upload a photo and visualize various design features? I see there are some options out there and am curious if anybody has done so. I'm in the planning phases of a renovation and have an...
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21 May 2024 | 25 replies
Renters will not pay for watering the lawn or Plants!!!!