I'm flipping this house in Washington D.C and needed an extra bedroom. The two options were digging out the basement and adding a bedroom there or adding an additional floor and putting the bedroom there and leaving t...

Hey all,I will be extending an offer tonight for a multi-family home that I would be living in. It is a two family home; I will live in one unit and rent out the other. I am trying to get a full understanding of the e...

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I have been reading blogs and listening to podcasts about house hacking and I am extremely interested in the whole idea. One issue, my wife and I have no desire to live in a house hack ourselv...

Hello All,

This issue has come up many times for us when evaluating and comping our leads.

Let's say I get a call and seller tells me the house is a 4/2, 1200 sq ft and I confirm by viewing the property. However, th...

So I recently had a conversation with an appraiser and he basically confirmed what I already have heard regarding ADUs based on research. He said that basically any home that he appraises that has an ADU built on it, ...

A tenant asked if another roommate could come live with her. She lives by herself now in a 2 bed, one bath, so there is room for them both. I explained that they would be added to the lease and must pass all other bac...

My wife and I recently purchased a single family home that we plan to live-in-flip. I'm in the military so we will be moving in a few years and we plan to rent or sale it after that. Its a two bedroom/ one bath. I've ...

Hi everyone.

I'm considering making an offer on a house that needs an addition built on it... Since this would be my first major construction project, I'm looking for some feedback about whether this has pot...

Hello,
I live in in the city of Santa Clara (in Santa Clara County) in California. Here are some home facts before I ask the question:
- Current market value from Zillow: $1.5M- Number of bedrooms: 3- Number of full...

We are about to close on a SFH we plan to house hack in an HOA, the CCR's say as long as it is a roommate we can rent. This property has a separate 2br. apartment and a 1 br apartment in addition to the house we will ...