My wife and I recently had our offer accepted on a new flip we plan to use as an investment property. We had the inspection done yesterday; however, there are a items that came up we weren’t expecting and now are star...

It has been really hot this week. When the tenant moved in everything was in good working condition.  HVAC is about 3 years old. Tenant is saying AC won't cool to 73 degrees. It hols on 80.I told the tenant not to low...

Hey all,It's winter time and the oil is flowing. This gives me plenty of incentive to find a way to cut some of these heating expenses. Most of the time when the topic of submetering heat is brought up the consensus i...

Hope there's a veteran DIY/handy guy who can point me in the right direction.  My tenant called about a strange issue she is having with her dryer and sent a video to verify the symptoms.  When the door is closed and ...

Hello,We have a rental property in Northern California and the tenant reached out a few months ago indicating that the oven wasn't holding temperature.  Our property manager reached out to a local appliance company an...

I hear stories all the time about tenants going on vacation, turning the heat down, and coming back to burst pipes, which seems to typically end up being the landlord's problem. Is this actually as common as it seems?...

Does anyone on here know if it is legal for me to put a lock on the thermastat in my duplex?  The stat is on the main floor and controls both levels.  The new tenants love to have the heat cranked way to hot.  Can I p...

It was -22 F in the last couple of days in Ottawa, and yesterday morning I suddenly got no hot water in my main bath. Because this is an old house built in 1939, I suspect that the hot water pipe comes to the bat...

Looking for specific advice from owners who have turned a portion of their own home into STR. 
We added a private entrance/exit, turned 1/2 bath into shower full bath, added a closet and a kitchenette, so our entire ...

Hi.  I am in Los Angeles County, CA and I need to figure out if running all the house's plumbing external to the house is up to code.  So basically, an owner had old galvanized pipes and instead of repiping correctly,...