I own a few rentals and had a tenant that got a dog (unauthorized, no pets allowed), had other people living there, trashed the like new carpets and the freshly painted walls and new doors, not to mention left behind ...

What Cash-On-Cash (CoC) return do you like to see on your rental properties, and at what point in your loan term do you calculate your CoC from when deciding a property is worth purchasing?I'm doing some returns base-...

just curious, knowing everything is regional and depends on choices ...our apartments are formica and laminate not granite and tile...but what do people use as a per sq ft price or per room price to thumbnail renovati...

How much does your contractor usually charge on top of his (or her) subs to manage a rehab job?  I am working with my first contractor, the prices he's getting from his subs are very reasonable, but he's charging 10% ...

I think that my experience as a brand new "House-Hacker" can be beneficial to some other Newbies out there.  I wanted to share what I believe are the top three surprise benefits to being a house hacker over starting w...

Hi, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Richard Kalnitz. I'm a medical instrument technician currently working for Roche Diagnostics and living in the Fox Lake IL area. In addition to that I am a Real Estate inve...

I have been looking at various property management software applications that exist, and Buildium seems to be an extremely popular one. Considering that it costs a minimum of $40 a month however, it seems like it migh...

BP community,
Background:
A few things to note before I get into this thing. I have been quiet on the forums, but have listened to most podcast episodes, I belong to meetups etc...I live in an up-and-coming, somewha...

Hello All, I am in the process of buying a rental property in Philly and I live out of state. We were to close today so I had my agent do a final walk through yesterday.  When he got there he found that the bathroom o...

Plan is to rent and hold for maybe 5 years or so, then fix up and sell.- So right now, it's a 50's house, it has hardwood floors that had carpet over them, I'd like to have the hardwood floors refinished and looking n...