Hello there – I have a question that has had me stumped for some time now. I hope I can get some good feedback. I live in the Tri-Cities in Washington state. And it seems overall as a whole, that Tri-Cities real estat...

This is a pretty strange problem....

There has been an ongoing problem in this area with severa heavily populated residential & business areas that were built on top of a WWII munitions testing range. I thought t...

IntroductionThe saga started almost a year ago (September 2014).  The relationship with long-term tenants we inherited two years prior had been sliding sideways for some time - their unit was the only one we had not r...

I was thinking about how this pandemic will shape not only real estate but business as a whole once the world gets back to “normal”. Just looking at the amount of businesses forced to close by the government has led t...

Just curious for those with 10+ units...at what point did you decide to hire an outside company to manage your rental properties?  I've been self managing for a long time and done well, but wondering if maybe I can go...

I'm lending at a 25% LTV on a piece of land in a high end neighborhood. If I have to take the land back, I want to make sure it's not useless land.

It's in a small high end subdivision on a new cul-de-sac that's a...

Hi all! My wife and I are moving from California back home to the Midwest where I'm from. I've been wanting to start investing in multi-unit properties for a while, but it's been too expensive for us to get started ou...

Hello,We manage a ~300 unit apartment community in Birmingham Alabama. We purchased the property in Oct 2019 and the average water bill for previous ownership was roughly $24K per month or $90 per door. Since then, ou...

i hate talking about carpets in rentals. it gets my blood boiling. i hate shopping for carpet. It's like buying a mattress - if you dont know anything about it, you are getting screwed over. i hate dealing with tenant...

Hello all, I am new to land-lording (~2 years) and in San Diego, CA. We don't have a property management company. Last night a tenant got drunk and locked herself out. She scaled the building and broke a glass sliding...