I am under contract for a single family house in Stamford, CT. There is an underground oil tank in the front of the house. The previous owners used a company called, "Technical Environmental Construction, Inc." to aba...

Thanks for BP community. I made my first step as a new real estate investor, I am going to close my first rental property next Friday. It is a SFH built in 1967. And needs some fixes, here is a brief inspection repor...

I had a more thorough walkthrough of a house I have under contract today. Because of groundwater ingression via the backyard (another issue altogether), tenants have had to pull up the laminate flooring, exposing ...

HELP. Landscape supply business demanding to be paid under the table (cash only, no paperwork or receipt) for poor quality product not agreed to.A landscape supply business misrepresented their product to me. I orde...

So its been raining here in Maryland for what feels like 4 weeks straight.  I discovered water in my basement today, very wet carpets.  I called Serv Pro and they did the remediation work and put drying equipment in p...

Does anyone have good or bad experience deepening a crawl space that is so shallow that it doesn't allow for full access to the crawl space and floor joists for inspection?

I have had some termite trouble so this i...

Hi BP, 
I'm a new investor looking to close on my first house hack in North Jersey! I was able to find an awesome property and get my offer accepted. I'll be able to house hack and reduce my living expenses significa...

Hello folks - I purchased my house in Aug 2018 in NJ. It is a single family two story home with a basement. The house was constructed in 2000. It has a sloping backyard elevation coming to the back of the house. The p...

looking at potentially a disaster of a situation regarding copper pipes inside concrete slab.-Home is 10 years old-Copper pipe inside the concrete slab had a leak.-Pinpoint leak was found (after digging through severa...

Western Washington has had more than it's share of rain this winter. Seven inches this month alone. One of my properties has a full basement with cinder block foundation walls framed out with sheetrock. The lower h...