Luis Pereiro
Need help requesting City/County to install a sewer line??
Hello BPI have rentals in an older neighborhood which is connected to the city sewer line, except for 1 street. Not sure why that is. I happen to have 2 of my rentals on that street. I've spoken to a few of the neighb...
Nathan Frost
AMEX Business Line of Credit
Hi, has anyone applied for a business line of credit with American Express? What all do I need to do? Would like to get the process going. Looking for 20-50k.
Ana Marie B.
Moved Into a New Build & Having Issues -- Need Help
Hi BP Fam! Need some help here. My husband and I recently purchased a $1.5M SFR that will be our primary home (we rented-out our former SFR). This new house is a new build, that is part of a 9-home development. Th...
Nathan Gesner
Price of architectural drawings?
I purchased a new building and want to renovate the interior/exterior. I know there's no set formula, but does anyone have an idea of what I should expect the price to be for these drawings? I found a website that est...
Mark Shelstad
Upgrading residential water service in Chicago
Greetings- I am looking for advice or a recommendation concerning the very high cost to upgrade water service in Chicago. Inspectors are aggressively insisting on upgraded service in many cases where it is not needed....
Dennis Gallof
Possible to Convert Illegal Cellar to Legal Apartment?
Hi,
My
father purchased this 2-family house (R5 Zone) back in 1976 in Astoria Queens,
and just like many other landlords in NYC he rents out the
cellar/basement.
I've been reading
online the definition betwe...
Peter Grote
galvanized pipes - when to replace
I am starting to purchase SFR homes to buy and hold. The homes I'm getting tend to be older 1900-1950 and so have galvanized pipes. What rule of thumb do people tend to use for when to replace them? when something's l...
Tiffany Kohrummel
Landlord or Tenant liability
My property has exposed power lines. My tenant hit a power cord with a weed eater doing yard work the other day. They (tenants) called PGE to come out and look at the power line and when they fixed the issue with the ...
Eric Belgau
Professional Services as an Expense?
My keyword settings keep me seeing forum posts about LLCs. Inevitably, discussions of LLCs (and the constellation of issues related to them) reinforce the need to work with professionals: attorneys and CPAs espec...
Douglas Stewart
Fire Alarm/Elevator Phone Lines
Does anyone have an experience with these types of phone lines? My understanding is that there must be two POTS lines for the fire alarm and one for each elevator. The building I'm working for is paying almost $1000/m...