I'm curious how you bill your property owners for maintenance hours?  Do you charge a higher flat rate property management fee and include some of your maintenance hours or do you bill each property owner only for the...

Tenants are responsible for property taxes, insurance on the building, and common area and maintenance costs under triple net lease. We are renting one of the units in a office building. One of the restroom water pipe...

I'm renovating a triplex. In the process of interviewing contractors, one of them brought up the idea of putting laundry machines in the units. The alternatives are putting pay machines in the basement, or not pr...

My brother has been doing property maintenance for friend of his who has 3 two units and a 14 unit building. the owner has a PM that uses my brother for maintenance on the buildings. He is paid $1500 monthly for upkee...

Anyone know if CAM - Common Area Maintenance fees are included as gross income for purposes of calculating property management fees.  Stated differently, we specialize in residential property management but are gettin...

I know that with residential properties, you need to be there for your tenants or have a property management watch over the place.

Is the same true with commercial? Or can you basically write into the lease agreemen...

I own a rental that has a storage shed. It isn’t very big, doesn’t have power, it leaks and isn’t insulated. I rent to college kids that don’t need to store much. They use the front half.When it comes time to rent to ...

Hi, I've been researching condos in my area. It's seems that I could cash-flow some deals, especially foreclosures.... BUT it does depend some on HOA dues. Other than calling an agent is there a way to find that info ...

Hi BP,I just received a lead on a commercial property on the outskirts of Houston. It has office space on busy highway and it sounds like a decedent deal, it has 100% occupancy and the owner wants to sell, to capitali...

When it comes to real estate investing, many people only consider detached homes. But in certain markets condos and townhouses can also be worthwhile investments, even preferable, and deserve consideration when evalua...