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-My mom has dementia, is out of money, and has been moved to an independent facility.  The house is owned outright, but she is otherwise broke.  We are loaning her estate 5K/mo to pay fo...

Hi! Enjoy reading the forum and now have my own question. In April this year my tenant decided to move out of the house due to personal reasons while on year long lease that ends this month. To save the situation he w...

My wife and I and sister-in-law are all equal partners (50/50) on a multi-family unit (4 plex). Long story short, my wife and I made a very poor decision going into real estate/landlording with my sister in law and we...

I'm helping my mother figure these things out. Sorry for any rookie questions.She owns 2 houses. House #1 where she lives, and house #2 which she rents to my sister.  I've read that your primary home's property taxes ...

My husband owns a house that his sister is renting from us in Baltimore city. She let a friend of hers and his family live in a basement and they paid her rent up until December. It is clear they will not be paying r...

Hello all, 1st time posting. Learning as much as I can as quickly as possible to get started in REI, but I have a family scenario / question for all the experts out there. My mother inherited 1/4 of a paid off lake ho...

My dad passed away the house has been left to me and my two sisters.  My idea is to do one of two things, sell the house and divide proceeds three ways, or buy out my sisters and keep as a rental for me.  Problems are...

My sister is in a senior living facility, and they decided to raise the rent 10% next year. From my understanding, in California you can only raise the rent 5%, plus the cost of living index, which I believe is 2.4%, ...

So, my sister is in kind of an odd situation and I'm not sure what she can do. Just a heads up, she didn't sign any lease agreement or documentation for anything (which she was already lectured), so I'm here strictly ...

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I live in San Diego, but I am back in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee now involved in a partition suit I filed against my big Sister on 1/23/08, because we co-inherited our childhood house from our Mother wh...