Greetings, 
I'm new to real estate and I found my first deal on a duplex in the Houston Texas area. I was going to house hack using a VA loan. I visited the property and made a strong offer. A few days later my realt...

I own and manage a duplex built in 1900, old house, tons of holes. The upper unit (floors 2 & 3) is occupied by tenants with a 12-month lease and the lower unit is short term rentals (Airbnb). The upper unit has m...

Hey everybodyI just need to vent for a minute...I’m a total newbie trying to rent my first apartment and I unfortunately have learned some very valuable lessons right out of the gate. Basically I showed the apartment...

Just went into a recently vacated unit and found a "sex offender" letter on the fridge notifying my tenants that a sex offender just moved in to the 4-plex next to mine. Was this the reason my tenants moved? Who knows...

My lender is requesting a CPA comfort letter.  Has any had experience with a lender requesting this type of document from their CPA? Has your CPA been reluctant to provide such a document due to the perceived liabilit...

I have installed laminate flooring in 3 homes now.  I am talking about the type of flooring that looks like wood planks, but it is actually a type of pressed micro-board material (something to that effect).  I am a hu...

Can I sell a spec home and turn around and use the profits to buy a vacant piece of land that one day I will build a home on for Primary residence under the 1031 exchange rules? 

I live in Dallas and I'm considering joining Lifestyle's Unlimited's ("LIU") PIG membership. If you are or have been a PIG (MF+SF) or a Challenge (SF) member I could use your help in determining whether the membership...

In November, Proposition 19 passed in California. This Proposition changes the way Prop 13 works, the monumental proposition from 1978 which fixed property taxes in California to 1% of the purchase price plus inflatio...

I have two rental properties (one of which is currently occupied) and I have home warranty plans with Complete Appliance Protection, Inc. for each of them. My question is, is it necessary to have home warranty plans i...