Charlie Gruber
Cost to add egress windows?
Looking at rental to purchase but needs egress windows to make basement bedrooms conforming. Can anyone give me best guess at cost of adding egress windows. Any advice appreciated but specifically looking at propert...
Tim Lindstrom
Help! Bamboo!
I recently purchased a property where the back yard is full of bamboo plants (shoots?). They are sprouting up as far as 20 feet from a bamboo patch at the rear of the property. I talked to the neighbor, and he said...
Javier Rosales
Financial terms with contractors
How I pay my contractors? Do I have the PML fund escrow, and have escrow cut the check for the amount needed?
Ben Leybovich
Lowering Expenses Is Not an Efficient Value Add Strategy
Say you’ve bought a 24-unit apartment building that generates $24,000/month in revenue ($1,000 per unit). This is a value-add, and you think you can improve the rents from $1,000 to $1,400, which would equal to revenu...
Joel Owens
ROMEX - Electrical wiring question
Okay some of the units I am reconditioning are for the most part fine just carpet and paint,1 toilet,etc.
One of the units is more worse off.They stole some of the copper plumbing but not too much.
On the electrical...
Curt Bixel
Tree removal and selling the wood
I have a rather large tree that needs to come down. It is about 90 feet tall and more than 3 feet wide at the base. It is a Honey Locust. I am wondering if there is any possibility of selling the wood?
Thomas Pierce
Disappearing Programs
In my area I have heard that the workers advantage program is no longer in existence. I fear that this may snowball into section 8 programs and others. Should i be concerned that section 8 may no longer exist down the...
Marcus Auerbach
Mortgage rates going up. Is the market expecting inflation?
Rates are supposed to go down. All the major forecasts for mortgage rates are still pointing slightly down for 2025. But ever morning for the last 2 weeks I see the 10 year T-bill up another 10 basis points or so, and...
Forrest Williams
Back Splash Assistance
My back splash edges were not finished correctly, and I'm looking for some tips to clean them up. Right now they are grouted at a 45 degree angle on the edges, and while I was assured they would look good when they we...
Brendan Chetuck
Hard Money Lenders in the Albany, New York region
Hi all,I have been doing my research on real estate investing, as all of you are, and even went to a BP meet-up the other day. While I was at the meet-up I was talking with somebody about hard money lending and it got...