I am currently rehabbing a row home in Reading, PA. The first floor is on street level at the front, but there is a walk out basement with three windows in the back. All three basement windows were covered with v...

hey guys I live in Branson Missouri and I'm buying my first investment property. I already own my home so this will be a 20% down conventional loan. The numbers on it our 64,999 purchase 1200 a year insurance 650 year...

28 ways to build a buyers list

1. Craigslist.com - You look in 3 different places on Craigslist. First you check Housing, "real estate for sale" in you...

My new tenants on one of my properties signed a lease a couple weeks ago with a move in date of July 1st.  When they saw the house my previous tenants were still in the process of moving out.  New tenants signed the l...

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...

Over the years on here I've seen some questions regarding people wanting to become Property Managers and how they would handle entering the data into a financial software program. What they don't realize is that there...

After screening prospective tenants and making a selection, am I obligated to let the applicants who did NOT get approved know why they didn't make it?  Not sure if it's best to "say nothing"....be vague....or tell th...

Hi all,I found a property in rural Vermont that is very reasonably priced and I'm thinking about buying it as a vacation property. My goal however would be to essentially own the vacation property at no cost by using ...

Question for you all.We had a couple move in to a one bedroom unit we have. They have been there for two months. Two days ago, I got a call from them saying there is mold on their furniture in the bedroom, the window ...

I'm just posting this as a warning for newbies.  Obviously, no one can predict the future and no one knows what's going to happen next year, the year after, etc.  But most apartment markets are at or near the peak in ...