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Continuing on the strength of 2016's performance, 2017 will bring require a skilled approach to selecting the right investments given the changing markets. Three trends we expect to have a high level of influence a...
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• The San Diego apartment market is amid a stretch of the strongest demand in at least 20 years.• Overall vacancy rate of 2.4% compares to the stabilized rate of less than 2%.• With recent demand, asking market rent...
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Hi, I am a new member in the bay area, and I am interested in real estate investment. Though a full time engineer job in the bay area pays not bad, the pressure (work-related pressure, living cost and sky-high taxes) ...
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People in Michigan hate renting houses without basements. But then at one point or another they all leak. They all have a hairline cracks and you get that call.
What do you do? Do u spend thousands to waterp...
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I am a relatively new investor and I just put a offer on a REO home. My offer was a cash offer, slightly over list price, with 10% earnest money, no contingencies, and within a few days of coming on the market. My ...
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Hello - I am a bit of a newbie here, I accidentally got into rental properties when I moved away from Ann Arbor and couldn't get the price I wanted for my house. It is now my only rental, but I'm interested in more.An...
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What typically goes awry with septic systems?If a leach field goes bad. What are my options?
I'm buying an older house (built in 1917) and just completed an inspection and inspector listed a few foundation issues... Interested in hearing if anyone has faced these findings before and how large of a problem it ...
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This is a followup to my post a couple weeks ago about my tenant wanting the A/C set to 65. I had a technician come and look at the system, and he said there is a severe kink in the line that could have been caused by...
Last night I contacted an old friend of mine whose older brother is a real estate agent. He got into the field after getting his masters in a different area, and it just so happened that his friend from high school st...