I just took over managing a vacant property and there is a leftover truck. It's been sitting there for at least 5 weeks. Would like to get the property rented quickly, but no one wants a car blocking a driveway.What w...

I've looked through some of the topics on BP regarding garage rentals.  Most deal with renting them out to 3rd parties not related to housing.  I'm looking to purchase my first duplex now which comes with a detached 2...

This was my first house, though it's 76 years old. I paid cash for it just over 6 years ago and have already made my money back from rents and the property has at least doubled in value from 60K to 150K. The deferred ...

Greetings!First time poster here, but have been lurking for a while! Thanks for all the great information here! I own a 4-unit building with a detached garage (one garage for each apartment) behind the building that i...

Need the BP brains to help me with a Car Wash hack. I'm looking at buying a self-serve car wash and force value / revenue by installing a car port / detail bay for a mobile detailer to be stationed there weekly and of...

Why would a home owner pay taxes every year for a property thats is vacant? I live in Newark NJ and there are vacant or abandoned properties all over. One in particular on my street and the house is being taken over b...

Hello Everyone, My wife and I are a couple weeks away from closing on our first Duplex in which we will be house hacking. One side is vacant and the other side is already rented out to tenants whose lease ends in 6 mo...

I'm going to put an offer in on a foreclosed house. Foreclosed 12/2012. Original owner went belly up, he then got some money from a private investor, 42k mortgage, then got a Hard money lender,  to lend him $132k.  Th...

Hey folks, I'm looking for some advice regarding the ROI of converting a garage that's under the house (with basement access) to living space.

The house is a high-end single fam and it already has 1 detached garage a...

I had a zoom call yesterday with my manager and a member of our housekeeping team.  We kind of got off topic and started talking about the "calls to remember" from this past summer.  Here are a few:
- "Dryer is smell...