What the chance!  The worst wildfire in Gatlinburg, TN in a decade somehow found way to my apartment buildings in downtown (near town center).  Luckily all tenants were evacuated by police the night before and no one ...

Hello, I would like to know if anyone in their right mind would hire someone who knows what they are doing, but has no insurance or a business name. He does work on the side and has his brother and side helper to get...

I am very much an aspiring investor in Grand Rapids and West Michigan and am checking off my list of needs (CPA, PM, capital, lending etc) but one area that keeps tripping me up is asset protection (i.e. umbrella poli...

Hello BP,I have a duplex located in the philadelphia area. My property is completely vacant while it is being worked on, and I haven’t been there in about a week or so. This evening I sent over someone to my property ...

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I have to this point mostly owned "residential" multifamilies. As I look into larger properties i am wondering if anyone has a list of improvements to make and estimated improvement $ amount to be added to va...

Many books that I read have mentioned about making an apartment deal with a 80-20 loan structure. Some of them even suggested the 20% down can be using private money and some could be carried back by the seller. I pok...

Zillow promotes Zestimates and so many consumers think this is good information to receive what their property is worth. Zillow is appearing as the authority on pricing homes. How accurate and misleading is the site?W...

I have a contractor whom I met from a friend of a friend. He is a jack of all trades. This is the second house flip I hired him for. First one went about 30-45 days over what was expected. He is a one man show so I ge...

So my wife and I own a few rental properties but we decided about a year ago that for the time being, we wanted to live a minimalist lifestyle while our two kids are young. So we made preparations and in July this yea...