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This has now happened 3 times in my primary residence.
I find a puddle on my basement floor, look up and a copper pipe is dripping very slowly from the middle of a length of pipe, its not at a joint, and the...
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Economic Update
(Monday, July 27, 2020)
This week is a good week for real estate investors (particularly if you have a house for sale). Existing houses sales are up, new home sales are up, inventories are down...
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It seems to me that despite the near-constant protests to the contrary from certain people in the dark recesses of the internet, the tendency of large countries with powerful militaries is that they do not collapse.
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Hello, I'm just torn between rehabbing and flipping a property I own free and clear or just rent out the property after rehab. I know in this business it's just a numbers game and it just up to you when you want to ge...
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https://caanet.org/glendale-tenant-activists-launc...There's tons of Tenant unionsIt's important to get the word out to SINGLE FAMILY Home owners too Rent control usually leads to lower Single family house values espe...
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Our story starts over two years ago. We moved to the Atlanta area from out west with a job transfer and bought a new home in a subdivision that at the time was building and selling homes at a rapid pace. We purchas...
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I was wondering what was everyone thoughts about rental properties in dilapidated areas was. Is it worth having all the numbers work out, i.e. 2% rule and house bought @ 70% of value etc., vs. the appreciation of the...
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Aloha Everyone thanks in advance for reading. I have decided to move forward with my interest in REI and want to explore out of state options. The first logical step for me was to analyze markets and then choose one b...
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I have some questions regarding tightening up my criteria for selecting prospective tenants, and weeding out potential bad eggs.
Does anybody have any thoughts on hiring a professional to administer a polygraph test...
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So we had an incident in one of our duplexes where a guest of the tenant was shot inside the home. I heard about it from the tenant on the other side who was afraid for their own safety, obviously. They have called me...