Word of mouth is best, you WILL get burned by a contractor.

Hi, my sister in-law came to stay with us with the understanding she had to get a job and a place in a certain amount of time. There also was an agreement to pay $300 a month to help go towards bills. She has now been...

I also install smoke detectors and replace the batteries once a year...whether they are wired in or not.If a tenant accidentally starts a fire in the kitchen, I don't want my property to burn down simply because there was no extinguisher available to put the fire out.Two items on my checklist for getting a unit ready for rent is verifying the extinguisher is still there, charged, and unexpired. 

He mentioned he wanted to donate it to the fire dept. so the can do a controlled burn.

I got burned bad on a rental property in Baltimore. 

Of course they were burned and some damage done in the kitchen.

I am still waiting to see if a duplex burns down does it get rebuilt to sfh and then re-convert to dueplex or will it be rebuilt to duplex status ???????

If the whole thing burns to the ground and I’m left with just an empty lot, I wouldn’t necessarily care to rebuild, I could just take cash value and walk away without a loss.

I got burned in 2005 when I bought at the height of the market so I would love for the shoe to drop and prices to fall.

Getting on an inspector’s bad side right out of the gate is a sure fire way of getting unwanted inspection results.