A couple years back, California redefined "Tobacco Products" to include vaporizers regardless of whether someone is vaping Tobacco, tasty flavors, or marijuana.  The lease in play only has a No Smoking Tobacco Product...

Obviously we have all dealt with certain types of food odors in properties before. Mostly we tend to have an odor additive to our paint when we paint and try to clean the kitchen appliances and scrub all the cabinets ...

Does anybody here have any experience with the Wayne county(Detroit) tax auction? There are several properties that I am very interested in. I know that March 31st is the deadline for having payment (or a payment plan...

Just purchased an investment property built in about 1960.  We've just about finished repainting the interior, but there is a persistent (what I call) "old house" smell.  It's not from a former smoker, and it doesn't ...

My tenant who spent the last 12 years occupying my rental finally moved out along with her 2 small dogs. Well I knew the floor was going to be bad after the horrible urine smell that was left in the unit. Removing the...

Over the course of my real estate career  I have been through hundreds of distressed properties and nothing can really surprise me anymore. Having said that, I am requesting advice on how to cleanse a property that st...

Ok, if you think you have seen it all, check out this house. My partner and I just bought it, it is definitely the textbook definition of worst house in the neighborhood. This guy was actually in the house before we...

My newly purchase house has a Cigarette smoke from the previous owner. Ozone treatment and duct cleaning is done, it helped but still smoke is there. Next step is I am moving to get house paint with Zinsser or Kilz pr...

Hello, Happy Holidays, BP! Question for you guys: with the impending legalization of weed, can landlords legally require their tenants not to smoke marijuana on the private premises? Thanks.

Hello,I bought my first rental property 3 years ago, which was an old (1886) single family home in the city.  About a year after buying it, my tenants started complaining about smelling sewer gases.  After doing a cam...