I have just been made aware by tenants of my fraternity house that people that don't even live there will bring illegal drugs (not weed, much worse), supply them to a couple tenants and do them.

I do not tolerate th...

I am having difficulties understanding how investors can get more financing after the first or second property. I am not talking about coming up with the downpayment but rather regards to mortgage affordability.
A hy...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26...By Patrick ClarkOctober 26, 2017, 2:00 AM PDTRents have increased rapidly across U.S. housing markets as the share of renting households has risen faster than the ...

I'm trying to decide how to do my background checks. Does rentprep and zillow charge their fees per applicant or is that fee for the entire household?
I was going to use Rentprep and from what I can tell that is a pe...

Hello everyone,I am having difficulties understanding how investors can get more financing after the first or second property. I am not talking about coming up with the downpayment but rather regards to mortgage affor...

Yesterday we discussed the overarching market trends according to CoreLogic’s Chief Economist Frank Northaft who presented his market overview in Manhattan this week. It was a very thorough analysis that pointed to br...

There have been a number of threads started on BP that talk about the housing market collapse not leading to increased occupancy in rentals. Here is a link to a study on this topic that shows that homeownership is do...

Hi everybody,
I know the topic is trite and got innumerable discussions over time, but I still find little to address this specific scenario.
I am about to rent out a house for the first time, 4 separate single room...

Hi. Has anyone used Neighborhood Scout? Is it useful? I'm doing my best to learn the neighborhoods in more depth here in Pittsburgh.

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