Perhaps this isn't the best place to post this question.  If anyone has any suggestion of a better place, please let me know!Bought an older house in Los Angeles (City), started doing some light demo, then thought it'...

I’m looking for a Cost Seg Engineer. Any recommendations on companies and what was your experience with them? 

Quick question - looking at a property at the Sheriff's auction. How do you find out if there is a lien again the property from a mortgage company? All the liens I found were tax liens and all the searches the count...

Hi all! So I have a tenant living in a single family house. Apparently there is a terrible sewage back up in the basement and it's going to cost $4k to remedy. She never reported it to me or my management company but ...

Getting ready to list my first rental. Looking for suggestions for a tenant screening and application website or service. I also just recently heard about property management companies that handle just the tenant tran...

With so many different scoring models and with consumers increasingly becoming confused when they check their credit scores and getting a different score depending on where they checked it at, I wanted to lend my expe...

What are some of the biggest things you look for when hiring a 3rd party management company out of state.  Consider that the property will not support onsite management or maintenance.  What some pitfalls you've exper...

Hi all, I'm about to close on my first properties in the US, in the Detroit area. It's come time for me to sort out my insurance and I thought I could set it up on monthly payments and this might be a good way to help...

My PM uses AppFolio and apparently it can not produce standard accounting reports (P&L, T12 and rent roll).  Can anyone confirm this or help me coach the PM?  I need these reports for the bank and for general anal...

When researching pre-foreclosure properties, I get an initial feel for the lien situation from the foreclosure complaint, but know there may be others out there.  Short of doing my own search at the courthouse, what a...