Hi,This is a more technical question, I have a house with brand new septic system installed, absolutely new drain field and we realised it already saturated in 3 months!! was expected to take around 15-20 years! I che...

Hello Bigger Pockets forum,I am looking for some advice on getting started with spec building in central Ohio.  Speculation building is not new to me, growing up my grandfather built spec houses on his off days (he wa...

I've just received a quote to fix a 4x8 area of a kitchen floor following a pipe leak in the subfloor.  The labor being performed is: Remove damaged woodRemove any damaged floor joistsRemove ceramic from 4x8 area to r...

Hello guys,
My friend has a house in Chicago. She bought a single-family home with an additional unit in the basement that is not an official/permitted unit.
The house was already rented to Section 8 tenants (both u...

We just opened escrow on a parcel of land on which we will be building a new 11,000 sq. ft. medical office building in Fullerton, CA. It's 3/10 of a mile from St. Judes Hospital, and the ONLY available parcel on which...

Hey Everyone!
So I’m currently in the process of planning to building a JADU and I’m in the step where I’m looking for an architect. I’ve gotten a few quotes from 1200, 5k, 10k. The 1200 one was from BP which redire...

Back in March 2013, BiggerPockets and J Scott collaborated to release two books -- The Book on Flipping Houses and The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs (check them out here if you haven't already). As part of the book ...

Our architect has done a good job helping us draw up plans to rehab a wing of an 1880 property (including some tear down and re-creating) and suggested working with one of the three contractors he often uses. The cont...

I'm looking at this building, ARV (though I plan to hold) is 750k, needs 100k at least (150k pessimistic est), and the seller is down to 425k (mortgage is 410k which I will assume, though I will have to pay back some ...

I'm under construction on my first duplex. I chose a local builder who has been building a lot of modern homes in the area that looked appealing to me (why I chose him). We spent time designing the duplexes together a...