I'll be sure to give him a call.I've done a handful of flips in the Grand Rapids area but have spent the last several months researching Kalamazoo.

I offered the option to either sign a new monthly lease with increased rent or a one year lease at the same low rate, just to guarantee income security for the first year while I cought my bearings.anyway, read their current leases and weight out your situationHope this helps

Without wide footings and compaction equipment some of these houses did sink into the ground under their own weight.

If it somehow gets worse quickly, and you have a renter that gets injured or their personal property gets damaged somehow from the rapid decline, you can be held responsible. 

I live in Grand Haven, Michigan and I am looking at properties in the Grand Rapids/Grand Haven/Holland area.

He said that he would recommend requiring a deadlift platform in any scenario where heavy weights could be dropped.

There’s a number of factors at play including the popularity of the product, scarcity of inventory, rapid appreciation, and flooding of the Austin MSA with both small and large investors alike.

You live so much less room for error when you leverage a down payment, unless you have an extremely high savings rate and would be able to build that up rapidly. 

An engineer/architect will need to decide if the foundation and first floor framing are sufficient to hold the weight from an additional floor above.A good general contractor will be able to take care of all of this for you from initial planning to full execution.

In the end a place can only sustainably grow RE prices if there is a pick up in local economic activity, via setup of new businesses leading to rapid and sustained job creation or if there if it is turning out to be an attraction as a retirement town.