8 March 2014 | 12 replies
I don't worry too much about dishes or clothes, I look for holes in walls, broken windows, etc.

31 January 2018 | 4 replies
If they make a hole in the wall and never tell you, you can fail inspection.

25 November 2016 | 11 replies
You will need a licensed civil engineer to design the connecting utilities and to prepare the site plan and drainage plans.

22 December 2022 | 32 replies
The properties that will struggle are those that did not (or will not) experience the run up in rents/revenue...and have a debt maturity in the short or medium term.Feel free to shoot holes in this thought process.

2 March 2023 | 9 replies
I would like to have this sleep as many as possible of course and curious if anyone knows the rules/loop holes with creating bunk rooms and if you actually have to register them as bedrooms with the town.

20 July 2018 | 4 replies
Learn about and make sure you have proper insurance and umbrella insurance, proper maintenance and property management first.Then, depending on what you are doing and in what volume (e.g. a lot of flipping), you should complement your insurance with insurance against litigation = asset protection.Ping me if you need more info - I can send you my notes on this subject and all the other rabbit holes it opens.

12 January 2023 | 5 replies
had to take off some siding, open up some holes in the drywall, etc.it was a pain to do, but was good to do it right.everything ended up working out and so we're good to go now :)ADU is legally permitted, and rented out now for $2,900/mth :)any other questions feel free to let me know!
3 June 2019 | 17 replies
You can make a mistake or two at your age and spend the next ten years digging yourself out of the hole.

9 March 2023 | 6 replies
.$1,000 could be earned in about 1.5 weeks.That's not very much money, to LLC up with an attorney can take more than that.the 10% inflation they just kicked in ($30,000 minimum wage income per year X 10% = $3,000)The $2,000 they gave you just evaporated and you are now $1,000 in the hole (what the right hand givith the left hand taketh away--in spades).Seriously if they really wanted to push Female owned businesses up and increase their earnings--the grants should be 10 or 20 times (at a minimum) that--but with these petty amounts they treat you like a cheap date.With $20,000 in your bank account for business use, it gives you a lot more options to make more money than $1,000.Nothing wrong with taking free money--but keep it in perspective (especially when they tax you at year end)--these tiny amounts are not going to produce life changing earning potential in a small business.for comparison in Austin they are giving $1 million dollar grant to the Black community (now that is some serious working capital that they can do something with to better their lives) https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/austin-tx-grant-prepares-give-1-million-black-community/65465865007/The Women always get such tiny amounts, the table scraps of grants it seems like.Good Luck with Real Estate, and in your business!

13 March 2023 | 11 replies
Of course that eats into cashflow a bit, but it provides peace of mind (and a large hole in your accounting for losing month(s) of rent) financially and emotionally (because you don't have to deal with it).