I know the typical approach to replacing carpet is to prorate it based on life of carpet. In this case, the tenant had 2 unauthorized pets in the house (a cat and a wild Crow -yes a wild crow), in addition to 3 author...

I have two duplexes, and have more than 50% equity in both of them.  Each property is worth about 200K.  In addition, I have about 60K (and growing) in personal cash set aside to invest.  Because of this strong financ...

I have some experience in the south Florida area. I wanted to know if anyone had experience in the fix and flip market in New Orleans? Good market or not so much thx 

Hi all! I'll be closing on our first deal sometime this week. It's a duplex with one set of tenants that are on a yearly lease and the other is on a month-to-month. My question is if I should make the month to month s...

Will Barnard, as a fellow beer drinker, you'll appreciate this.

At some point this week I'm going to write a blog post about this, but I wanted to put it here too. This community is just simply amazing.

I was readi...

I open this topic for all of us who not be able to come to the summit.

Summit attendees please write your daily experiences in this daybook maybe with some pictures if possible. So we can participate with you :).

An...

Hey everyone, my name is Rob Gard and I live in Schererville Indiana - about 30 miles outside of Chicago. I currently work in downtown Chicago and have been climbing the corporate ladder for the past ten years. Real e...

BP Investors what has been your experience with Airbnb/VRBO vacation and short term rentals? What cities and property types do you have? Did you convert your long terms rentals into short term or did you convert some ...

I just mentioned in another thread that boredum was probably the reason for my varied experience. Thinking back, when I got out of the military I was an agent for Metropolitian Insurance. I had a sales manager who tol...

I had my property inspection today by a section 8 inspector.  Property was ready to go the week before. Come to find out it failed because the air handler was STOLEN!  really?  No signs of break in. There was a lockbo...