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15 July 2024 | 3 replies
Hello,We just finished remodeling a house in the twin cities and we have an inspection to rent it.The inspector said that we were not supposed to change the vanity and the outlet by ourselves.
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15 July 2024 | 5 replies
However, under the "Disparate Impact" legal theory, fair housing issues arise when denying persons with a criminal record involving non-serious offenses and offenses that are remote in time.
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13 July 2024 | 7 replies
They moved in prior to my purchase of the home, so I did not do that and the last owner did not provide anything.
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12 July 2024 | 16 replies
Watch out for those pesky annual inspections, though- they'll get you just because they feel like it, after letting the last owner slide for some twenty years.Syracuse is a sort of happy medium between the two.
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12 July 2024 | 79 replies
Wow, was that a loaded question, I have done just this to help the owner pull the trigger if the owner is a little bit low on funds for the labor end of the project.
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14 July 2024 | 14 replies
This includes a 4.2% increase in rent costs and a 2.5% increase in homeowner's equivalent rent.New Residential Construction Data: Housing starts increased by 3.6% in May 2024, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.72 million units.
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14 July 2024 | 4 replies
An example of not recession resilient would be a karate studio or hair salon, things consumers cut back on when times are tough (and now you, the property owner, aren't getting rent, and thus might have challenges making your mortgage payment).
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14 July 2024 | 15 replies
I moved from Connecticut to Columbus, Ohio in 2012 and started investing in 2017 with a house hack.
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10 July 2024 | 6 replies
I've been house hacking for the last several years.
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12 July 2024 | 23 replies
What are the specs of that house?