I am a General Contractor in the Pittsburgh, PA area, I am NOT looking for work.
I wanted to try to add something useful to the site since it offers me so much so... if you are in need of a Contractor's opinion feel ...

We have all been thinking about and living the Corona Virus. I suspect that most of the BP community is in the same state of mind as me which is, doing everything I can to work it out in my head but obvious and defini...

This is the worst property situation I've had to date. I'm overwhelmed and not sure what to do. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. I bought this fourplex in December 2013. On Sunday a tenant reported sewerage ba...

I'm interested in renting a single room in my single family house. I already have a roommate that lives with me but I've known this person for years and they are clean and respect my house. My current roommate/tenan...

I've been living in an apartment the last couple of years while accumulating more money for my rental investments.  In May of this year I started to have some a/c issues.  The weather was getting warmer (gets REALLY h...

Got a call from a tenant telling me that a blade on her ceiling fan flew off and almost hit her. I apologized but went silent when she said she wanted to be compensated for the mishap. I told her we would talk about i...

Hello BP - 
Turned down the purchase of a home today with the following details: 
$220k purchase price $270k ARV  (built in 2008, just needed to be cleaned)
Needs ~$20k in light work (paint, faucets, yard cleaned) ...

I am sure everybody has encountered the nit picky tenant. They may be a good paying tenant, but they annoy you to death with every little thing wrong in the home.Obviously I pride myself on getting real repairs, repai...

I know probably some of you actually have. What's a typical year like in the landlord-tenant relationship, though? Do you expect two or three issues per tenant a year or two or three a month? A week?Thanks for any rep...