We have started to allow tenants retain utilities in our name but we have wondered whether the amount we add on for utilities should be counted as part of the monthly rent, especially for reasons of aligning with the ...

Recently closed on our first REI. Plan is to hold and rent it out for a while. The place was built in 95 and still has the original HVAC which is an R-22 unit. The outside unit looks bad but we had a professional c...

North Carolina, via statutory changes to the Development Tier Designations, changed the way NC Commerce identifies Tiers in their County Distress Rankings. The latest rankings show that a bunch of the coastal plains c...

what are your thoughts on purchasing a property that is in a FEMA 0.2% Annual chance of flooding zone for a rental?

What is your take on Massachusetts? Does this market present good opportunities for us as Multi Family investors?

There is a small window in the shower and water is ponding on the sill when the shower is used, which apparently is causing the shower wall tiles to deflect below (most of them now need to be replaced). I was told tha...

Full disclosure: I did not come up with these suggestions... they're from an email I received today on the Mr. Landlord mailing list. If you have any suggestions to add, please do. I moved to Louisiana next year, so e...

I have been reading, listening and thinking a LOT about real estate since making the decision to go all in on building a RE business.  My expertise is in residential, but when looking for deals, I ran across a very sm...

A builder I know thought he got a smokin deal on 8 lots in an expensive area near me .  Its an old subdivision so he had to merge 8 lots into 4 . He paid $ 60 thousand for the lots . Which is a great price .  Now the ...

We have a beautiful golf course in our area that I believe, after meeting with the owners, would sell super cheap --- potentially on a land contract too. I have been thinking about ways to capitalize on the opportunit...