I recently purchased a 3 unit building in Chicago.  I'm occupying the basement unit, and in my unit along an exterior facing wall are all of my pipes controlling water for the 3 units as well as the main.  These pipes...

Being from SoCal, I have had no personal experience with freezing pipes, but I'm aware that it happens. We currently own rentals in CA (OC) and AZ (Phoenix metro), so we don't have to worry about it at our rentals...

Hello! In the process of purchasing a multi family that has an illegal 3rd bedroom in the attic of one of the units. I'd like to make it legal so that we can rent it out but am struggling to determine if it is possibl...

I'm interested on what folks think of PEX.  I love the stuff and find myself pulling out perfectly good copper pipes and replacing with PEX.  For those of you who have it in use, how long has it been in place?  Have y...

Hey guys,

I'm in the process of buying my first ever home. My plan is to buy a cosmetically distressed property and fix it up while I live in it. After about 2 years, I plan on either renting it out for cas...

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I'm currently rehabbing a house in Pennsylvania for rental and everything could have gone wrong went wrong.
Anyway, I'm having so much issues with the plumbing system from cracked cast iron radiator...

I can't believe I didn't think of this one before.

If you're in a cold area, do this or have this done:

1. Go into the basement or crawlspace and find 2 pipes. First, find the pipe that is your hot water going o...

Attention Landlords and Property Managers

In my neck of the woods, we are having record setting extreme cold temperature that seem to keep lingering on and on. In the past, we are use to having a spike for ...

Good morning all,
I recently bought and renovated a house. With that renovation came a new air conditioner and insulation in the attic to help ensure the AC would work properly. In all I spent 11k on it 7 for the ins...

I hear stories all the time about tenants going on vacation, turning the heat down, and coming back to burst pipes, which seems to typically end up being the landlord's problem. Is this actually as common as it seems?...