We are preparing a nice condo for rental.  It has a brick fireplace in the living room.  It's quite attractive, but probably not used much because of the mess involved.  It was built in 1981, and we're only the second...

Hi all, I am a fairly new landlord in northern Virginia, and have been renting my 2 bedroom town home for the last two years. I just had new tenants move in and within two weeks, the closet shelves in the master bedro...

...can excessive rain really affect my foundation?In many areas, the soil in Colorado is heavy clay. The soil is often red, derived from igneous, sedimentary and volcanic rocks that existed in the area thousands of ye...

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My wife and I bought a recent flip in February 2022. The sellers cut a lot of corners. Sadly some issues were not discovered during various inspections. We have had persistent issues w/ the roof HVAC unit. And t...

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I am closing on my first RE property in a week and it's a 3-1 SF in a B- to C-grade Cleveland area. Trying to rehab the house and then planning to rent it out.
I was hoping to get some inspiration from the B...

Hi! I'm a newer investor (3rd property) and I am listing a newly renovated property (3 bd 1 bath).  New lighting, boiler, hot water, flooring, etc... pretty nice.  I have listed it on zillow for 20 days now with inter...

Does anyone have solid core luxury vinyl plank that has held up for years in your rental without splitting at the seams?From all the reviews I've read, it seems people are trying to lay this stuff over unlevel floors....

So I’m coming to a close on my first single family flip and let’s just say the experience with the contractor has been less than what I had hoped for. Now he is expecting a payment of somewhere between $3500-4500 ( he...

Being in South Florida where it's summer 11.5 months of the year it's nice to have ceiling fans to circulate the air in a rental and renters see it as a "plus" although I don't think it's a show stopper.My rentals are...

Hi all,I hired a company to replace my old plywood soffits with aluminum and they ruined the drip edge when they installed the aluminum fascia. The roof / drip edge is less than five years old, and the drip edge was p...