I live in NRH near Southlake Texas, and am a frequenter of the Town Square Starbucks.

A bad tenant can damage your property and leave you footing a bill in the thousands.

Is there some kind of specific software or sources that they use to figure out things like cost per square foot, usable square foot/person, assessing the current state of the market or assessing their competitors??

Thanks everyone.Let me know what you guys think of thisOption 1 - Assuming the metal boxes are not grounded back to the box, have laborers remove the baseboards (they need replaced anyway), remove one foot of plaster from the bottom up, drill holes, prep and maybe run the wire, let the electrician do the final hookups.Option 2 - Add GFCI on the ungrounded plugs (mostly in the bedrooms), which at $12 each seems a lot cheaper.

Hi All,just got put onto this site by an investing colleague of mine - what a phenomenal resource.I am looking at a 4-plex, it'll be my second rental purchase, already have one established, albeit SFR.When I look at comps the nearest 4 plex units are all 2 bed 1 bath, and one sold as recently as Dec 2014, so is a good guide for me.What is a good strategy to estimate value in the 4 plex of interest to me which is 3/2 as it's the only 3/2 layout compared to the other 2/1's.I have averaged number of rooms and applied this to larger 4 plex, eg sold for value divided by 8 (2bedx4 units), divided by 12 (2 bed, 1 bathx4) , then multiplied this by 12 (3bedx4) and 20(3bed, 2 bathx4) and I have also used square footage ratio's to gain a value on the larger property.Are any of these methods feasible and if there's a better method, I'd love to hear it.For the record, these comparative units are all in the same subdivision, are architecturally similar, so direct comparisons in this case are pretty close.Thanks in advance,Michael.

In Redding, the Police Department can take hours to respond to calls, and the Sheriff Department is even worse as they cover hundreds of square miles with only a few Sheriffs.

I've got a 1750 square foot new build.  

Pets (or drunk college students) pee on it, drag furniture across it, etc.My old college rental had cheap stick-on laminate squares.

Sometimes they are buried down a foot or so.

Visit your city websight to learn of growth and future plans.Realtors will give you recent closed price by the foot comps.Dane