Hello all. I attended a small home and garden show in Dallas yesterday and spoke to a rep at the DirectBuy booth. I have found a number of negative reviews on the company. Most of the positive reviews came from ...

My wife and I just welcomed our newborn baby to the world and my wife is currently on maternity leave. She is getting paid while on maternity leave through EDD. We would like to start investing in his future and was w...

Hey BP community! We are in escrow for our second STR, this one in Black Mountain NC, just outside of Asheville. We will have to furnish it so I plan to fly out there the day after closing (currently reside in Oregon)...

I have an industrial warehouse that is fully rented but has 5 acres of flat land that I am thinking about doing self storage on.  Has anyone used the portable self storage units rather than building a building on a ce...

My wife and I recently purchased a single family home. During the home inspection the inspector noticed that the furnace was constantly leaking(dripping)water. He also notice a wet spot under the oil tank; he said th...

So me and the wife have a house buying company and do rentals and such. We have a website, i do bandit signs and flyers everywhere. Do a lot of facebook posts too. So we are looking into direct mail with a company cal...

Has anyone used door hangers as a marketing strategy and tracked your response rate? Or even have a general opinion about your estimated response rate? Best of all, have you done this in conparison to direct mail? I'm...

This is my first major repair request as a new landlady. I received this question from my property manager: "We sent someone out and it can not be repaired. I am sorry to have to tell you this news. Do we have your ap...

Hi Fellow BPites,I recently ran into some bad luck and had two major plumbing repairs on two properties. Expenses were $2.5K and $5.5K (& counting) respectively. In both cases I had sewage backup into the home. Th...

I'm in MA, and my property has oil. Typical 1900s style 2 family with dumpy - if any- insulation!  It's set about 300 feet back from the natural gas line on the street, and it order to bring NG in it'd be $7K to jus r...