Mark Forest
Broken water pipe disaster
One leg from the power pole went out, and it so happened to be thr side that supplied the furnace. Pipe broke and disaster ensued. It makes me ill thinking about it. We have demo/remediation people there now that insu...
Mei Li
Questions to ask get a quick first idea of construction quality
Hope you all having an amazing day. :)This is a very open-ended question. Let's say there's a listing of fourplex. Building is 80 years old but recently remodeled and looking like new both interior and exterior.My que...
Fred Stevenson
cash out refi to raise cash for future opportunities
So I believe there are going to be a lot of opportunities in coming months to purchase assets at hugely discounted prices so cash will be king. So my question is this, I have a number of rental houses that have sign...
Allison C Henderson
How much DO holes in the wall affect your appraisal?
An entertaining question for most I'm sure. Don't laugh. My soon to be ex-husband and I are separating, and I will be buying our his interest in the house. He's decided he wants a set of flush mount speakers curren...
Eric P.
My first flip! (with pictures)
Hey everyone, Brandon suggested I post a little about my first rehab that I just started working on. So here goes! Please comment with any design/rehab ideas or on the bolded questions in the picture captions belo...
Darrick Lowe
What's going on with this exterior WINDOW???
I'm not very good with window terminology, but when I took a look at this property, the "side jambs" were turned inside out on several windows? Looks like some old tenant deliberately took a crowbar to it. I tried b...
Fred Ramos
Commercial Financing (Apts)
Hi All!
I just need to run this by you guys/gals and see what you all think.
just a little background on myself and wife first to better illustrate the picture. we started investing in RE (SFR) just over a year and a...
Matt Dabek
Apartment building 10 year loan - standard?
So I went to my bank yesterday and they said that they can qualify me for apartment building loan.My problem is they said that the longest term of such loan would be 10 years/20% down. Now when run my numbers with tha...
Kel S
Rental has jet bathtub...what kind maintenance/issues? Will we have to fix for tenants if breaks?
I know nothing about these type of tubs that have the jets in them...except that I want one :mrgreen:
Anyway, the REO we recently purchased has one of these tubs. Replacing it with a regular tub probably isn't prac...
Ryan Keenan
Va appraisal and chipping paint
Hey bp, just had a va appraisal done and everything went well except for the chipping paint outside. I do have shake siding which would be very time consuming to paint the entire house. Anyway around this?