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Hi All!Currently looking to purchase our first vacation rental/second home with 10% down. We live in the metropolitan Washington DC area and as you can imagine, its pretty expensive to really pay 10% on anything here ...
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I am based in New York's Hudson Valley and interested in buy and hold investing with a focus on smaller multi-family properties. My wife and I purchased our first property last year; an older 3 family in a busy villa...
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The ADA says true service animals do not require registration, nor can I ask to see it even if they do have it. Does this mean anyone who says their animal is a service animal can get around my no pet policy?I can ask...
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Late last year,
partnership company acquired a multi family property that help I manage.
Rents were ok but all utilities
were included per the lease. Net income is low because of this reason. As soon
as each lease...
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My tenant won't give me permission to show my house to potential buyers. I am marketing it for sale WITH the rental agreement. This was explained to her, that she does not need to leave the property and that the inv...
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We had a really bad guest this past weekend. We are still cleaning up the mess. The summary is this: The guest claimed to have a service animal to aid her medically. We told her that she is allowed under ADA and Airbn...
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Still trying to understand what we have to do to accommodate a service animal, but long story short, we have a tenant (the only person listed on the lease) that we have noticed the smell of dog and cat when our lease...
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Starting with no money in your pocket? Or do you have a little that you would like to stretch and use to buy 5 properties instead of one? Here are my top 5 strategies for investing with little to no money of your own...
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I have my 1st wholesale deal, and the buyer and seller don't know that I'm wholesaling it. Buyer knows there's an assignment fee, just doesn't know who it is.
I convinced the Title company to include the fee ...
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I've read other threads on BP about mold, but as you know different regions of the country tend to experience mold in different forms and fashions. Here in the south, we have lots of crawl spaces that are very hum...