I'm in between tenants on one of my properties. In the living room there is only one good spot to hang a TV and over the years its really making a mess of the studs in this area. In a few more years of tenants I'm afr...

So we buy some new outside carriage lamps to replace the old ones outside the garage. There was a mounting bracket attached to the electrical box which used 1 in screws to attach the fixture.

Both the existing a...

I am wiring some new porch lights on my triple-decker that I would like to come on automatically at dusk. Does anyone know of a standalone or box mounted light sensor? This will control three LED lights wired in serie...

I have completed my latest rehab and have also posted some of the costs involved. I would appreciate any feedback you can give me in terms of how the house looks and what would you have done better/differently and if ...

Good Evening! My wife and i have two duplexes and i recently noticed that every time a new tenant moves in and requests a tv service, the technician comes out, puts a new dish on the roof, runs all new wires to every ...

I heard in one of the podcast to use CAN lights instead of ceiling fans in order to avoid maintenance later. My question is "Do we need to put CAN lights in bedrooms?" If so, how many CAN lights should be there a mini...

I am trying to figure out a better way to avoid putting up a yard post every time a property is available for rent and remove it every time a vacancy is filled.For single family homes, I think I will rig together a po...

You all use lock boxes on your rental properties right?

Jason just posted on his blog about using them to sell houses far away. But we keep lockboxes on all construction projects and on all our rental houses.

If a...

I just got a home inspection done on a 3 family and they found 90% of the electircal to be active knob and tube. It is a fire risk being in the insulation in the attic so if I moved forward with the deal it would have...

I’m looking to purchase some lock boxes for my rentals so I can have my maintenance people able to access the property no matter if tenant is there or not. My idea was to have a lock box mounted on the side of my uni...