Hi BPs,

My tenant said there is cold air coming in from the fireplace on and old property. Contractor found that the fireplace damper somehow was removed (bummer). He said it's too costly to reinstall this an...

Question for landlords or anyone with experience on this on. My new rental has a fireplace. I would assume that it should be blocked off with some type of decorative tile or something of that nature. Sticking with the...

Team BP,

Just had this come up with one of my tenants. In retrospect I should have foreseen this coming... but missed it. I acquired a property last year via foreclosure. It required some renovations due to d...

BuilderOnline.com has a lead article today, "Editor's Pick: New Ultra-Slim Fireplaces"

Bottom line - as long as you add the venting, you can add this fireplace to just about any place, without it having been planned...

I’m currently building my luxury STR in Gatlinburg and was curious about fireplaces.  I really want a nice one but it appears most are installing very basic, much cheaper gas fireplaces because of ease of use and the ...

Bought a foreclosure house that had been on fire. In reading the fire report it was stated as the cause: "excessive usage of fireplaces over time that had an ongoing pyrolysis to the wood structure members."

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I am remodeling one apartment in a 4-plex. Each unit has a fireplace, and I would like to eventually remove them all for safety, insurance, and space reasons. This post is meant to seek out thoughts on what to be...

I have a gas fireplace in my rental property that is broken and the tenant wants it fixed, but would you fix it?For me there's two issuses:1) The cost of fixing the fireplace.When I got the complaint about the firepla...

New investor looking for some advice on a fireplace in a rental property (See below). I do not want to deal with the liability of allowing tenants to use the fireplace, so we have a clause in the contract that stipula...

I'm a life long SoCal investor buying property in Vermont. In Cali, fireplaces are a huge plus, in the NorEast they are rarely mentioned. From reading the forums I guess 100 yr old homes the fireplaces are a negative?...