I am planning to buy a house in Colorado that has a driveway with some significant surface deterioration, apparently from excessive use of salts to melt snow. Other driveways in the neighborhood have the same problem ...

Hello. We’ve been investing in our local market for several years now and are looking to diversify our portfolio. We are starting to research other markets, which feels daunting considering ‘any’ market could be a pot...

Hi folks, 
I'm a DIY'er myself and I picked the DIY section so I can learn from the experience of other hand-on folks. I'm trying to understand the approach to recommend to my foundation guy.
I'm working on a BRRR p...

Hi BP.  We have a house that does not have a walkway from the sidewalk to the house.  It is about 30-40 feet from the sidewalk. The sidewalk was put in just a few year ago.  I noticed that other houses do not have wal...

BP,I'd love some feedback on how to best proceed with a potential live in flip that I'm considering.  I walked the house yesterday with my realtor and a GC who gave us a quote. There were three different horizontal cr...

Thought this would be an appropriate question considering half this country is going to be under a deep freeze.Do you leave the central heat on low or do you let some faucets drip water to prevent frozen plumbing?  I ...

Got a property that is in great condition upstairs, even has some new appliances, but they never winterized the house and some pipes in the basement busted. Water is at about 1/2 inch when I checked it out, saw water ...

Hello folks,We recently bought our first duplex and we are obviously house hacking.A small problem though, we have an outdoor staircase which is very unstable and ready to break off anytime someone is on it.Question: ...

How much do yinz budget for repairs and capex for single family rentals from the early 1900's in the Pittsburgh area?  Rules of thumb such as 5% of gross rent for repairs, and 5-7% for capex seem optimistically low fo...

Hello,I own a home in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.  It rains a lot here and we have clay soil.  There was some cracking in my foundation when I bought the place but I had the foundation inspected and the engineer ...