Insurance: what’s your “it saved me” success story?We’ve all heard the horror stories and know the illogical thinking behind not having property insurance.However; In reviewing all of our property insurance with my EX...

My daughter is getting set to put a for rent sign on her first house in Buckeye, Az. She has spent quite a bit of money fixing it up for her first renters. Paint, flooring, cabinets and clean out. The only thing she i...

i Live in a Pre WW2 house. Built in 1902. I have these ceiling tiles. I dont know what they are called but I want to replace these ones cause they look droopy. I just replaced the roof cause it seemed there was water ...

Hello Everyone,    Being a truck driver, I spend a lot of time on the road with just my thoughts, especially when SiriusXM has nothing new on and is just repeating, and the weekends the stock market is closed! I would...

So I have a historic home in Salisbury, NC built in 1900. There is a beautiful clawfoot tub that is original to the house. However, the foot keeps coming off and the tenants don't use it for fear of it falling over wh...

I closed on a property at the end of April and the tenants had not paid rent for the month.The property has now changed ownership and the PM shrugged his shoulders and said 'nothing we can do'.It's $1500, so quite a l...

If one is starting out in real estate do you need to be the handy man type (I am far from that) or can you learn the basics of DIY as you acquire properties?

Hi everyone, I posted some details about this in the deal diaries forum but apparently that wasn't quite the right place so I thought I'd share a little bit here about my first real estate (investment) deal. Back in 2...

Hi All,I'm having flooring issues I'm hoping somebody can help with.  I'm in the middle of a full remodel and the carpeting and linoleum had to go - one due to pet odors and the other due to age and poor repair.  I'm ...

Hello,I have a neighbor and it looks like they don't have anything worthwhile to do in their life and she keeps complaining directly to the muncipal authories about any petty weeds or shrubs that grow on front of my l...