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Hello, recently I lived in a Townhome, and due to financial reasons, had to move out.
We received extra expenses upon moving out, most of which we believe we should not have to pay for, so I'll go into a bit more det...
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I am preparing to do my first absentee owner direct mail campaign and this is the letter i have come up with.
(Subject’s name)
Street
City, state zip
Dear (subject),
I am writing you, because I am interested in pur...
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Hello all! It has been a few days since my last post; therefore I have new questions.
In 2006, we purchased a SFH that had been flipped. A few months after we moved in, the house started to crumble around u...
We are stuck in a situation that keeps repeating itself. We have a rental property in a high demand area. Houses in this area do not go on the market very often and a lot of our tenants try to exhaust/frustrate us int...
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I've sent out 2 months of direct mail to absentee owners with parameters such as >50% equity >2bdrms, etc. I've sent out 2250 letters and post cards and gotten 57 responses. That's a 2.5% response rate. I ha...
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I don't want to break off a piece and get into more work than I need to. Anyone see this before? How is it removed? I've never seen a flapper like this
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We are heading into our third lease term with a questionable landlord who lives out of state. I will be honest and admit there have been issues with the landlord from the very beginning. It took 3 months to see the ho...
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I have two duplexes. As soon as I bought them I made improvements. I wonder, how many improvements is advised for a rental property? Do I keep it as nice as my house or do I do the minimum possible? (For example...