About to buy a duplex, guy is asking too much for the area and I'm hoping to support my numbers with a spreadsheet. Monthly expenses I'm not sure about are, for example, pest control fees, insurance, I think property ...

I found a 4br home in Grass Valley, CA where seller is willing to do financing w 100k down. Asking price $450k. Pest report shows termites and porch needs replacing or taking out, still assessing real costs of this.  ...

If a managed property falls into complete disrepair and suffers a roach infestation with such a magnitude that every fixture and cabinet needs to be completely replaced, due to roach feces, where does the property man...

Hi there,I have purchased a townhouse in GA 3 months ago and had a tenant occupy the house pretty fast.Unfortunately, due to the cold wave that struck the area  (damaging the HVAC unit) and pest issues, the tenant had...

Hi BP! I wanted to share my rookie mistake. We have purchased two SFH with inherited tenants. The first was in February and the second this past month. While we were closing on the second rental, we did a new lease fo...

I have a tenant in a ground floor aparment with a minor ant issue. I plan on getting it resolved as soon as I can, but I'm looking for insight into whether the best course of action would be to call in an exterminator...

I am wondering... should I have a copy of key to every room within the apartment? I wonder if this would be an invasion of privacy. With 1 unit, there are 2 people living there, with their respective bedroom being the...

Colleague used property manager to manage large apartment complex. Property manager engaged in harassment of tenants, and failed to enforce maintenance taking care of property. Trash not collected for months at a time...

Hey friends, I'm fairly new to real estate (still waiting to pull the trigger) and am trying to get the knack for quickly identifying if a property's numbers would make it a good investment. My thought was that this p...

I purchased a house in CA in this difficult market. Tied up most of my cash in the house. Issue came up. It seems there is a cockroach problem in the house. I don’t have much equity in the house. So I would lose $ if ...