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Dear Pocketers,
How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?
While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...
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Hey BiggerPockets family!We'd love to see (or hear) about your worst home renovation fails, and how you were able to fix them :)Sometimes you learn the most from someone else's mistakes --- and sometimes you just need...
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Hello folks - I purchased my house in Aug 2018 in NJ. It is a single family two story home with a basement. The house was constructed in 2000. It has a sloping backyard elevation coming to the back of the house. The p...
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Hi I'm doing a rehab and pulled out walls of a load bearing hallway to combine two bedrooms to a master suite. Problem is a few things, the floor upstairs feels like a trampoline because the old owner who had built th...
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An ordinance was introduced this week to re-legalize the construction of new "accessory dwelling units" on existing Chicago properties. This includes coach houses and basement & attic units, which could be added w...
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Hey all,
So I have been reading around lately looking for advice on what "things" to put into a rental. I don't even know how to classify what I am looking for, so it made my searches much more narrow than what I wan...
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My wife and I just finished our first flip. We put the house on the market about a month ago and have had almost zero traffic (two showings). Empirically, I know this means it's overpriced, despite an initial listing ...
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My offer was accepted on a 14 unit apartment. I knew it needed new windows and was built in 1950. In the purchase agreement forms we signed, he wrote NONE in the disclosures. He showed the best (only good ones) 3 u...