I may be buying investment property in an art town that is very hip and hot, with prices going up fast. It is still inexpensive to buy but won't be for long. There are problems there with drugs and crime, mostly prope...

I keep hearing on the podcast that house flippers always tend to use other lenders, hard money, etc... Even in J Scott's book on Flipping Houses says that they use investors and don't really use their own money.What I...

I know that a lot of investors don't bother to repair a lot of the problems found in an inspection report. But how do you choose what to address and what not to? When I talk with the inspectors, naturally they tend to...

I vividly remember looking out of my bedroom window at the gleaming Devon tower in downtown Oklahoma City. We had just finished moving in and my wife and I were still caught up in the glam of living downtown. Our 725 ...

She is a classic problem tenant. We've repaired all her issues in a timely manner of course, most recently her fridge has been leaking, so we set up an appointment which she failed to confirm three times in three days...

Well, before I go into that, I will tell you that I’ve been on both sides of the STR equation.  In 2015 my daughter and I ran a company in NYC that rented apartments on 12 month leases and then “Airbnb” ‘d them from 1...

Bought a house down the CT shore trying to decide if I rent it myself (via VRBO ABNB) or give it to an agent who has area expertise (and multiple rentals).  This is my first year owning the house, high demand area. Lo...

I use postlets and CL for advertising, show the place myself, screen myself, and hand the keys over myself.  I've often wondered if using a realtor to outsource this is worthwhile.  

I've been looking around the Sac/Folsom area for singles, duplexes, and quads recently and this time on our way back home to the Bay Area we stopped in Vacaville and Fairfield and found they were both very cute and re...

One of the houses we're looking at has some strange drywall issues (mold?). Has anyone seen anything like this before? It's in two different locations in the house, both facing the outside wall although there are no a...