I am looking at making an offer on a house with a crawl space.  It is on a very flat lot and has a problem with water standing around the foundation, and under the house.  It was built in the 1960's and apparently the...

I have never payed water trash or sewer bill as it is always included in rent. I just moved to a duplex where we pay that now .my first bill was $500 and now my second is $843?!! I called my landlords and said they ha...

Hey folks,Case Study: a distressed waterfront property that has an unusual ground water situation.  Here's some context.The property is on a steep grade sloping away from the road.  The property itself is relatively c...

Let me start by saying this will be my first deal with real estate investing I am looking at a mobile home park with 18 pads and 1 house13 pads are rented so is the houseAll mobile homes are tenant ownedThe park is on...

As it relates to residential water usage, it’s better to save more by flushing less.Case in point: Demand has wiped out the low-flush toilet supply in Boulder County, Colorado, the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conser...

Hello everyone,I'll try to make a long story short here. I recently had a tenant who I could hear running the water for long amounts of times (15 minutes or more). After the third time in three weeks I asked them what...

Hi! I'm looking at a quad which rents $750 each. Currently, the landlord pays the water/sewer which I think will cost around $50/unit/month. My realtor (who is also an investor and a property manager) says I can sub-m...

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Why is it so high (previous months were $140/mo on average, and in last 2 months it jumped almost 6-fold!) What could it be? It's a SFH 3bd/1ba with finished basement. 2 adults and 5...

I am working on a mobile home park right now and need to hook up a vacant home to plumbing (I am not a plumber). I have called several plumbers and they each say that the drain/taps for water (it's connected to city w...