It is common in Vanouver BC for owners to rent out rooms to people due to the cost of the mortgage. I am now in Tacoma and came across this gem of a house. 8 bedrooms 5 baths 4 thousand square feet. The house has not ...

I am wondering which is a better option.  Is it better to pay a tenant to take care of certain things around a duplex or should I charge the tenant less rent?  I am wondering from a tax advantage point of view. If I c...

I'm asking because their are some newer, reasonably nice homes here that are on zero lots. The larger lots, in the rental price range I would accept, are usually older houses, sometimes not that appealing visually.

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Is there any reason for me to be concerned, and is it even any of my business... If a person stating to be married is signing a lease for a rental unit with someone who is NOT their spouse? I don't really care, but th...

My neighbor is $5,500 in back taxes on her CondoShe is $40,000 behind on condo fees.She paid 200k for it in 2008, and now they are selling for 182kThe Association has filed a lien on the property  What is the best and...

I currently have a Quadraplex under contract that has existing tenants in all four apartments. The neighborhood is somewhere between a C and a D so I am not confident I am acquiring the best tenants. The only landlord...

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I read the above article and was very disturbed by it. I believe in freedom of speech as much as the next guy, but like any other freedom...

I just read Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged. What does everyone think
of it?

I like alot of ideas she had about socialism and capitalism. But I also thought like any idealogy she went off the deep end in some places...

We have owned a 4 plex that we purchased 2 years ago and inherited 3 tenants. For the time that we have had these tenants they have been wonderful. They never complained, took care of our property, made the place a wo...