I have never bought a house. I want to house hack using a 5% conventional loan. The triplex I'm looking at is listed at 130,000. Its in pretty decent shape other than some cleanup and foundation issues. 
The 3 sty ho...

I was looking at the market place and I saw a couple of homes in there. One for ~46k and another near ~80k if I recall correctly. Looking at the data here: http://www.city-data.com/zips/38111.html it seems the 2014 Q3...

I am currently rehabbing a row home in Reading, PA. The first floor is on street level at the front, but there is a walk out basement with three windows in the back. All three basement windows were covered with v...

I got a quote from solar city to put solar on our personal residence. Our house is pretty large and our average electric bill is $275 a month.  If we got solar the total costs for the system would be $33,000.  But acc...

Hi folks,A few weeks back, I decided, at the advice of all of you beautiful people to convert my rental from electric to gas heating.  I just received the quote and the hvac guy is saying I have to change out my AC un...

We have a friend that has moved from Iowa to Texas but has a home that needs about $50k worth of work on it.She has very limited funds if any. I have agreed, if we can get a contract for this, to take over her mortgag...

Hi BP community,There was a recent ordinance passed in the state of Missouri (specifically the actual city of Kansas City) pertaining to whether or not landlord's can review and deny tenant applications based on sourc...

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I think i got a start in REI, and I like to seek more advice on how to proceed to the next property.

I got my first property as my primary residence one and half year ago. I bought it for 340K wi...

I have a tenant who's received multiple citations from Baltimore City Sanitation Dept, for having untagged and inoperable vehicles parked at the house.  They have one vehicle that doesn't even have an engine, yesterda...

Hi, my name is Alexander and I invest in Washington DC and Richmond on SFH units (buying rentals). I recently have shifted my focus to Baltimore focusing on small multifamily units (under 5). Below is a potential "liv...