Hi all, I recently had both of my (amazing) tenants report septic backup through their toilets.  Each side of my duplex is 2/1.  I called the septic company that did the original inspection 18 months ago at the acquis...

Saturday night, we received a call while we were out from the guy who rents the basement of our personal residence.  Sewage was backing up into his bathroom and all over the carpet outside the bathroom.  We managed to...

Just wondered if everyone is surviving Fri the 13th unscathed.  We cancelled the very nice plans we had to work on a main sewer line drain clog all day.  Started at 6 a.m., just finished cleaning it up, so instead of ...

Water heater, and gas heat...

Are there any issues/problems with this? I'm more familiar with electric. thanks

It seems no matter how much attention I give to the gutters they are filled and the water is overflowing and doing damage. How often do you all clean the gutters, and do any of you use one of the gutter “no clean” ga...

Hi everyone,I have one-year lease with the tenants. Tenants moved in in February but have requested maintenance very frequently. It has cost me $4000 since they moved in.The most common issues is plumbing. They use “f...

Hello fellow landlords,
I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to open up a discussion about an issue I've encountered recently in my California rental property (7 yrs old home), and I'm sure many of you have faced s...

Hi all!This is the first time I'm working on a rehab that's more than just cosmetic. We're finishing a basement & also considering updating electrical / plumbing. Our contractor said we should definitely replace t...

One of my rentals flooded today. It appears to be a backup in the city pipes in the street and the workers are working on it. No blockage was found in my sewer lines. My tenant has sewer water in her entire unit and c...

BP Family,Have you ever had a tenant that always calling you to do a maintenance? Or consistently finds a problem for minor repairs? What have you done differently to reduce the numbers of complaints that something th...