After three years of paralysis by analysis, I’ve finally decided that I want to take action and get into this industry. I have capital to invest in myself so I’m not starting from the bottom. I was looking at courses/...

Let me give you a bit of information as I would really welcome your peoples opinion on what order we should tackle the improvements. I will also add that the property is in the San Francisco Bay Area, where rent...

Hi, this is my first post since turning BP Pro a few months ago. I closed on my first rental property, a townhouse in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore on 6/14. I am using a property manager, and there are listings...

In the town I invest in, the Water Department will send a bill to the tenant, but the understanding is if they don't pay, the owner is responsible.  I've noticed most other landlords in my market pay the water bill, r...

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We have a 4-plex in San Diego, CA, and the water bill went up from 250$ (60 day billing cycle) to around 400$... I am concerned that there could be some water leakage that can damage my property. W...

So I purchased one house at the end of Feb and it's still not finished being rehabbed, but about 2 weeks after that I bought another house (house #2).  We finished it up and after a week on the market we accepted an o...

As a long time lurker, but first time poster, I have to tell you all that I am really impressed with the quality of the posts and all the awesome cooperation shown in this forum.In an older post Jim Johnson said "In o...

We bought a home in one of the nicer zip codes in our city, in the top school district at what we thought was a deal. We put a significant amount of money into the house and have received excellent feedback on the ren...

How much does a potential renter care about the appearance of the front lawn? We are looking at a property in a middle class neighborhood in Charlotte, NC, and the front yard has just been seeded and covered in straw....