Hello, Newbie here.  I was searching through the RMLS and trying to get some practice in on looking at buying a rental property.  I'm not ready to buy, but I am pretending that I am to gain some understanding on how t...

Hi all, I'm a freelance writer, and what you might call an accidental landlord. After visiting Detroit on assignment for a travel story I fell in love with the city and -- following a yearlong search -- my husband and...

Hello everyone,We are getting ready to start investing in real estate out of state...primarily buy and hold SFRs and small multi-families. My husband and I are partnering up with 2 friends (another married couple). We...

Hi Everybody,I have found a very intriguing property (so far) and plan to go see it.  If it is "the one", "the first one"…. or, if I have to look at 100 before I find the one, eventually I will have "the first one".Ho...

Good morning all,I am hoping to pick the minds of some of you that have less than 100 but more than 5 rental properties on methods of insuring same. Currently, I run individual landlord policies on each property. At m...

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I've been interested in real estate investing for awhile and have a desire to see it through. I'm unfamiliar on where or how to start. I attended a 3 day seminar and gained little insight. After completing, they propo...

I've read the articles and many guidelines on being safe when blogging and not releasing any extremely personal details. I get that, but to help show my family is involved in our community, I'd like to post about some...

I have tried using the Canada Post mailing list generator. It lets me select Own vs Rent, household income and family status, among other innocuous and generally useless criteria, but none of the juicy details that th...

I am interested in a house with foundation problems. It's a 1300 s.f house built in 1973, no basement, slab foundation. The document shows that the seller paid $27000 in 2022 for 8 eccentric pier installation, 20 carb...