If you are screening tenants and you figure that the tenant might be have a difficult life situation, would you put that into consideration when choosing if the financial side of the screening passes?

On a hunch a...

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I'm finding it challenging to find deal with enough of a spread from price to arv, given repairs... when using hard money. I'm at a point where I'd love to start looking at private money but don't know where t...

Hello everyone!  I just wanted to post about my experience with driving for dollars this evening.  I had some goals in mind that I wanted to achieve tonight and I learned some things along the way.  Here we go...Crite...

How can I learn my market without access to real estate agents' CMAs?

Recent sales prices aren't listed with the tax office. I need to be able to estimate ARV, but without cmas or the ability to look up sales pric...

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Welcome to the meeting of Landlords Anonymous....

"My name is Jerry Kaidor, and I'm a landlord"

( "Hi Jerry!" )

It started in 1996. I had a good job in Silicon Valley, and my ...

Looked at the store yesterday at different insulation products.  No calculator in hand but seemed shake and rake(I call it shake and bake) was double or triple cost of blow in regular stuff.From there it was hard to s...

I purchased my home in 2006 because its in a quiet dead end cul de sac. The past 2 years a few of the homes around me have gone up for rent and brought in "interesting" people.

Unfortunately the people next door t...

Hello BP,     So, last year I picked up a 1,900 sf rental property which was a 2 bed 2 bath.  It had a large finished basement so I was able to section off two areas and make additional bedrooms out of them.   It is c...

Would you be concerned if the radon levels comes out to be 6.4 in two days test. This test was performed at our future primary residence where we got a pretty good deal. Given other general inspections are OK and rado...

Pushing back on the line in the sandThese days, it's hard to imagine being out in the field without your smartphone. And while nearly all of us know exactly where our phone is at this very moment, you probably couldn'...