My neighbor's basement is flooding after some pretty heavy rain over the past week. They have called a basement guy out, who would solve the problem by jackhammering up the cement floor in the basement, digging a tren...

Hey everyone! To celebrate the new ability to upload photos easily here on the forums, I'd like to start a "before/after" thread here on the site so people can post their favorite transformations!

This is Y...

Serious, yet simple questions: Question 1: If you found out your property management company had an average days on market of over 40 days would you immediately fire them and look elsewhere? Question 2: If you answere...

I always thought that when you transfer title, you trigger the due-in-sale clause in a traditional mortgage.I see questions time and again from investors who want to transfer ownership of their residential property pu...

which brand of locks do you use at your rentals?

The good stuff Medeco? Baldwin?

Middle of the road Schlage?

Lower end kwikset?

Or even Defiant from the home depot?

I...

I have looked into the subject of interest-bearing security deposits and I have a few questions about the setup. So in California there is no law that requires this. I am asking because I view it as a benefit to the t...

I have a lot under contract that the seller can not sell until July 10. Seller bought the lot last summer before things picked up, and now realizes he can make a small gain by selling on long term capital gains. He ...

Long story short:

- This guy, call him "Yao", bought a house for $400k a few years ago
- For whatever reason he wants to get out from under the mortgage but he's been making all his payments. His credit history is b...

This is just the start of my journey, both for this property and for my REI career, but I learned a lot in the long time it took me to get this property under contract. Want to share what I learned along the way in th...

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My furnace guy called me about this today. I hadn't heard this before. Any furnace installed after May 1, 2013 needs to be at leas...