I need some RE investing advice as my wife and I are having trouble coming to a decision on whether to sell our SF property given that we are moving.Background: bought San Francisco duplex in 2014 for $1.45 million (t...
What is the best paint to use to paint kitchen cabinets.
I am not evaluating or recommending this book, but new book written by Zillow has the following items in their book. 1. Location, location, location is NOT the number 1 rule. Buying and predicting what the area wil...
For a newbie, doing ceramic/porcelain tile oneself could take a very long time I assume, with the inevitable measurement mistakes, do-overs, etc.
How much money do you save by doing tile (or flooring in general) by y...
Have you ever AIRBNB'ed, VRBO, Craigslisted, or rented a STAGED FLIP property while on MLS? (Have you ever found a new, willing to maintain staged cleanliness, short term tenant in exchange for a rent discount?) It se...
I just had a tenant move out of one of the units in my duplexes (in Kansas City if that matters), and it looks like there is some repair work that needs to be done on the cabinets, paint, carpet, door handles, etc.Whi...
How do you tell if a price on a job is too high or not? When you start out, you bid the work out and get several estimates. But after a while, you have to stop doing that because the contractors will stop coming aro...
Most investors need supplies of some sort. (I shop at Home Depot because I can literally see it from my front yard.)But unfortunately, Home Depot doesn't carry everything.Where do you shop? What dumpster company are y...
slumlord is a pretty harsh term, however, let's say-Its a rough neighborhood (some spray paint and busted windows on various bldgs)-A bunch of 2-4plexes on the block-the living conditions of current tenants is bad (pa...
So I decided to write a post about my first BRRR property. I realized that like me there are a ton of new real estate investors who are trying to get in the game, in the process of getting in the game or just got into...