Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
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Hello BP community!I recently purchased a MFR and have a leak in the roof.  The easiest access to the flat roof is from one of my tenant's windows.  However, the tenant has been in the hospital since before I bought t...

Getting ready to sell a house in Tucson, AZ. The water softener does not work. I do not want to repair the water softener. If I just remove the water softener and plug the threaded end (where it hooks up to water pipe...

I'm currently looking at buying my second property via seller financing:It's a single family home recently built in 2013, 3 bedroom/2 full baths, no rehab work needed. I'm looking to buy at $60,000 with $5,000 down an...

I have a tenant with a pitbull. On our contract it states no pets. I have talked with her in the past about it. I live in California. Any advise?

Been running into this issue, I am purchasing homes using funds from a partner, who is strictly providing cash and does not want to be hands on in the process. The issue is, conventional financing for investor homes d...

Hello,
A seller and I accepted an offer of 288k on her duplex.  It needs a bit of work, but I believe as my second House Hack, it will work out well.
My question is this: Her friend owns a title company, and she wou...

I have one set of tenants that just moved in in February to a SFH. They are having some domestic issues (they were engaged when they moved in). He supposedly locked her out and she can not get inside to get her f...

What percentage of a total deal will you fund on most deals? For example... I have an opportunity to buy a house for 200K that needs 50k of rehab. I'll hope to then sell it for 300+k after all's said and done.

Are yo...

Three partners were 6 weeks away from opening a microbrewery and had a lease-purchase agreement to purchase the property for $515K. The financial partner recently pulled out for personal reasons. The remaining two par...