Heidi Schmid
6 Insurance Policies for 3 multifamily properties?
Hi, I have 3 multifamily properties in California (2 duplexes and a triplex) and because all the them have buildings that don't share walls, my insurance company writes 2 policies for the separate buildings. If ther...
Zimean Vickers
Urgent Help Needed. Inhabitable with family living there
I need help bad.. I'm buying a home that I plan to demo and built on the lot. The home is inhabitable with no water, electricity, dog feces, no appliances, holes in the ceiling, rotten siding, & a lot more- Its a...
Jo W.
Inhabited tenants - when is the time for eviction?
Hello everyone,I recently (09.18.18) purchased a two family house in Buffalo NY and this is my first real land-lording experience (I don't count my house hack). The rent is way below market value (450$ instead of 700-...
Tania Patch
Electrical Fire, House Inhabitable - What have you experienced?
Hi all!The house is a 2-family I own that I was planning on occupying in the spring once the tenants left (through legal owner-occupy channels). I get a call from the local police department at 4:30am that there was a...
Dav Horn
Foreclosure auction - worth bidding with many liens & inhabitants
I am looking to dip my toe in the foreclosure market for the first time, and would like some help to clarify the many (sometime conflicting) inputs on the status of liens associated with a foreclosed property being so...
Dean C.
Selling an inhabited rental in era of Covid moratoriums?
Property is in Illinois inhabited by tenants and they are current on rent with an assumed month-to-month lease. Despite not keeping the property as clean as I would have liked, overall they have been decent tenants fo...
Kendall Roberts
Tenant has new boyfriend inhabiting rental...what to do??
My husband and I converted our first home to a rental a little over a year ago. The initial screening process was an eye opener, and we quickly learned that professional/stable people are few and far between. Our pr...
Melanie Johnson
Pay off all Credit Card Debt Before First REI Deal?
Hi everyone! I'm new to the forums and to REI. I haven't done my first deal yet. Actually, my husband and I nearly bought a place earlier this year. That place fell through at the last minute, but although I was hugel...
Bill Plymouth
What's with the animosity towards whole-salers?
Perhaps I'm generalizing, but I see some heavy hostility towards the idea of whole-saling in the forums. Why do a lot of members seem to be so against wholesale? I've seen "unethical" and "shady" thrown around a lot...
Andrew Polsky
Online auction houses only close 11% of their listings
There are so many reasons why properties don't sell on auction sites like H&M and Auction.com. I recently learned that because a lot of the loans are insured, it's in the bank's best interest to not offload a lot...