I am on my 4 SFR flip. So I have just enough experience to think I know more than I do. We are repainting the existing kitchen cabinets. According to the painter he has put 4 coats of primer and 2 coasts of paint (whi...

Maybe you’re OK managing your own properties. I tried that for a while, but started losing sanity, steadily, at about ten houses under management. It was a good learning experience, but necessity dictated that I far...

Real estate investors are faced with a seemingly unending list of decisions to be made. Which property will make the most profit? Which neighborhoods are up and coming? How extensive should the repairs be? Who can mak...

I just purchased a house that was never completed. The house was framed up, put under roof/ windows, siding, windows but the inside was never finished. The inside is just bare studs (no insulation, plumbing, HVAC, E...

Hello Everyone!I moved into a new area a few months ago, into a standard little neighborhood for my area. Whole bunch of 3/2, ~1,400 sqft houses, built in 1977/1978. Today, while the wife and I were doing misc. work o...

Two years ago I bought a condo next to AT&T Park (San Francisco). I did not buy this unit as an investment. I bought it to live in. Because……every morning I get to go for a jog on the Embarcadero and see the su...

I just graduated college and this summer I will be looking for vacation rental properties in the USVI, Puerto Rico, and Central America with a focus on Costa Rica.  I have many questions but I want to figure out what ...

Newbie Here,Just got off the phone with an agent who says that in the state of Virginia it is required to have a signed "Exclusive Right to Represent Buyer Agreement" before he shows me any homes.  Now I have no probl...

This only applies to the District of Columbia.There is a sorta-kinda interesting comment discussion on a popular local blog called Prince of Petworth (PoP) regarding TOPA "From the Forum – Assigning TOPA Rights". I wr...

My son graduated from college (yeah!), got a job (yeah!), got an apartment (almost yeah!).  He signed a standard lease in a 400 unit complex and arranged for all of the delivery trucks, electrical, cable/internet inst...