James McQuirter
Water heater recommendation
My wife and I are renovating our first STR, a 3/2 lake house. We believe it can sleep 8 people. What size and brand water heater would you recommend? It currently has 50 gallon capacity electric heater that needs r...
Brandon Brown
Replacing boiler and old forced air AC with Heat Pump in Chicago
My wife and I own a two-flat in Chicago, and we're planning to upgrade our heating system. Currently, we have boilers and radiators that we want to remove to create space in the basement for a future conversion into a...
Ian Dyer
Flooring - What is the very best to use for lots of rentals?
What hard flooring do you recommend?
We'd like to find one SPC or better product and color that will be available for hopefully 8 to 15 years or more. Any suggestions?We manage 150+ units. We use only hard flooring ...
Steve S.
Tenant says oven only putting out 250 deg heat
Any suggestions on how to most cost effectively address this issue on an electric stove that's maybe 10 years old, if that?
Michael Wentzel
Is Cleveland the next Detroit?
I'm just getting into buy-and-hold real estate. We own one property in Colorado Springs and are under contract on a second in Pueblo, CO. I have been looking at houses in Cleveland, OH. The prices are ridiculously ...
Martin Potokar
Property Condition Assessment (PCA) Pays Huge Dividends & More...
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The post you are about to read is based upon a factual account of a property condition assessment (PCA) recently completed for a commercial real estate property consisting of a multi-tenant industrial office ...
Steve Osowicz
Thoughts on what to do with commercial building.
Hello,I own with a partner a commercial building here in Kentucky that we have done some work on, had an LOI and prelim contract but nothing has come through. It is about 20,000 sq ft with a parking lot and about 1.8 ...
Brendon Penner
LVP - 12mil VS 20mil Appliances Black VS Stainless Steel
Hello BP;I am a newer investor with 10 units. I am about to rehab 6 of those units over the next 3 months.I am looking for some help making a few strategic long term hold decisions;I am going to use Luxury Vinyl Plank...
Stephen Lyons
Self Storage Upgrading/modernizing
My dad has a self storage facility with:
1) 15,000 sq/ft warehouse (no environment control)
2) 2,000 sq/ft office with 2 bathrooms and 4 rooms 3) 16,000 sq/ft drive up self storage4) about 40 parking spaces
All o...
Dolf Al Emara
what do you think about investing in multifamily in Idaho?
Hi investors,I am an investor from California and would like to invest out of state for the first time in my life. I am familiar with SF bay area and LA area markets. however, I know little bit about Nampa, Eagle, Boi...