I'm bad at hiring contractors.

I'm working on fixing that.

Often I tell myself "I could save X number of dollars by doing work myself".

My dayjob translates into about 40/hr, so I figure if I hire...

I am trying to put a new roof at an affordable cost to an apartment building. The roof area may be around 2200 – 2400 sq feet (just a guess, I can confirm later). The cost is a major factor so I am requesting va...

Hello BPers!I need some advice. I'm about to relocate to Orange County, CA and start my real estate investing career. My Father-In-Law is a General Contractor for fairly high end renovation and private development. He...

Fresh out of undergrad and without the prospect of a career job on the horizon, I took the plunge and moved from beautiful Reno/Tahoe to Knoxville, TN with the woman that I was dating at the time (now wife). She had b...

What a nightmare trying to find a contractor to do a small shower. All contractors want $10,000 and I’m like what the heck. I screened and screened and searched up and down and right and left till I found a unlicensed...

August of 2011 I bought my condo for 175k. We did 5% down and spend quite a bit of money remodeling it to meet our needs. Back that time we couldn't find anything we liked, and this was cheap enough that we could spen...

Tenants who moved in with a 12-month lease in April sent an email today saying a parent is buying them a house, it happened quickly, and they will be moving out September 1, only 4 months into the lease.  They've been...

Many people are familiar with 'survivorship bias' when it comes to mutual fund investing, the basics are this:  a fund company may start many funds over its lifetime with different strategies.  The ones that do poorly...

I am a newbie in real estate investing. I have a few properties in the US primarily for generating a regular cash flow. I would like to explore European real estate market, specifically, Spain with the same investment...

I've put the trafficmaster allure vinyl planks in a few homes now - the version with the grip strip edge.  We just has a tenant from the first place we did a year ago let us know these floors have warped, bubbled, and...