***Begin rant***Just needed to get this off my chest.  Tenants these days don't want to pay for a darn thing.  They don't want to pay an application fee, they don't want to pay a deposit, they don't want to pay for ut...

Hello, my name is Nikki and I’m looking to purchase my first multi-family home (duplex, triplex, or quadplex) in this area (Norfolk, VA Beach, Hampton, Newport News, Portsmouth).  Ultimately I’d like to use it as shor...

I have a couple of duplexes (upper and lower in each building) and each duplex has one furnace for both upper and lower units, I am paying the utilities right now, but would really like to have the tenants pay for ...

I've posted before about this problem--now it appears to be back.

My old tenants complained repeatedly that the house was getting too hot. It has a Goodman air handler inside and a heat pump outside. The AC guy came ...

Hey everyone, I'm Seth Evans.I'm a ENT physician who works in Kyle/San Marcos and lives in Austin. I have been focused on growing my medical practice for the past 3 years since moving to Texas and I recently became s...

I’m at the stage where I need to get my finances more organized. Previously I had one property and one bank account but now I have three- one just finished a rehab and the third the rehab is underway.Two use a PM but ...

We've been fixing houses for a long time now in multiple cities and for lots of different exit strategies. Even though we have had thousands of inspections done on properties, we've never before had to face this issu...

Im about halfway through escrow period structural damage was found during the inspection. My inspection contingency window closes in two days. What should my next steps be?

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This is a tri plex in downtown River...

It has been raining since Monday. The river is above flood stage, the rain won't stop. I went down to the crawlspace just to double check, and found a lot of water. I see where it is coming in - from poor grading arou...

Hi!  I'm a computer engineer from Austin, TX.  Except for owning my own home, I'm not a real estate investor yet.  I'm looking to change that in the next year or two.  Like most of the other Austinites on BP posting i...