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Hello there! I am looking to get into the rental game after my wife and I sell our second home and move to the Ottawa side of the NCR. Quick intro, I have been a medically released veteran as of Dec. 2019. I a...
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My son and I own two apartment buildings - a fourplex and a 5-unit. In the fourplex, the tenants pay their own utilities, so I don't care how warm they keep their units. But in the 5-unit, I pay utilities.The thermo...
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What features do you think are helpful to have for a dishwasher that can stand up to tenant use? So far, I am thinking it would be good to have:
Stainless steel tub interior (supposed to be more durable)
Hard food d...
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When i was under one of my houses in the crawl I became a little nauseous. Is there some kind of tester I can carry around with me while I am under there? Will it work if I just take along a carbon monoxide sensor t...
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2 different apartment complexes in my town had stove fires today. No one killed or injured thank God, but one will have some fairly extensive repairs with a few residents displaced. The other has fire suppression abov...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in High Falls.
Purchase price: $180,000
Cash invested: $85,000
This is a short term rental I renovated and designed. It's now live o...
We have a rental property where a new tenant has settled in for about 4 months now. Before turning it into rental property my family and I moved there and we took good care of it. Our tenant has informed us they paid...
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Has anybody used thermostatic radiator valves to save money in old apartment buildings heated with steam radiators? I'm considering the purchase of such a building and am trying to figure out a way to reduce the gas ...
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As a dabbler in programming and scripting for efficiencies at my 9-5, I started using a SDK called Pythonista on my iPhone. It has 2.x and 3.x versions of Python, a console, and some iPhone specific UI and sensor pack...