My wife and I are tossing around the idea of selling our current home and buying a duplex, moving into the vacant side so we can purchase with less money down and begin our investment journey.
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We just had our home inspection today on a single-family house that’s part if a twin set up. Upon inspection of the attic, we discovered that our attic is connected to the next house. There is no ...

Hi everyone, good to finally be embracing the forums and getting my first post out there.My name is Ross, and I'm just beginning my journey into investing.  While I have about a year of experience in property manageme...

Hey everyone! I have a tenant set to move in three days, luckily I was able to get in early to get maintenance an repairs going in prep for the next tenant. However, my visit last week revealed massive amounts of ciga...

My wife and I have an offer in on a duplex and with the way the market has been lately, it's another instance of multiple offers. The sellers are soon to ask for everyone's 'highest and best'...which is really what I ...

After Toledo got about 5 inches of rain in a short period of time, my duplex started to have water come up from the drain in the basement floor, and out of the sewer drain in the basement. There’s a drain in the yard ...

Hello all,I am still in the middle of buying my first rental and I had a termite inspector check the house. They said there looked like there was termite activity at one time and signs that another company had previou...

I just put my first property, a duplex, under contract and got the inspection report back. The house is 107 years old and had a pretty lackluster renovation completed on it, so I knew there were going to be some issue...

Hey folks,Just closed on my second duplex last week!  This one needs some work but the numbers look good.   My particular question today is regarding a wet crawl space.I'm north of Seattle so this is a wet climate, bu...

Our tenant, without permission, painted original shellac woodwork in her apartment. We are restorers and this was original untouched woodwork in a 90 year old house.We are of course furious; she is non repentant but w...