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Newbie to House Hacking here. Please shed some light into this scenario for me. I thought I had read as a married couple, only ONE person of the partnership has to actually "live" in one of the dwellings for a year. I...
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I am thinking of purchasing a single family in the St.Louis County area and wanted to know if anyone has done this before and can provide any tips or info?
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Anyone invest in Champaign Urbana? I went to school there and am an Illinois broker but wasn't sure if there are specific laws, guidelines market forces that were specific to there. Is it landlord friendly? I like the...
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Hi Everyone,I recently had an inspection done from my insurance company on our 6 unit multifamily building located in Elmwood Park and they want us to put in 2 fire extinguishers, but provided very little guidelines f...
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Hello,
First post, so I hope I'm doing this right. We are moving to Austin in the next month or so and have been looking at houses. I'm not sure where we want to end up long term, so we're considering purchasing a sma...
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Hi, everyone. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer. I believe I have found a great property to purchase as my first investment. It is one continuous building on a residential-zoned lot; however, it ...
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Hey Guys, I work for a property management company here in Chicago and we are expanding our agent referral program. I wanted to get some insight of what many of you brokers/agents have seen in your markets. Would love...
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Has anyone had their real estate taxes lowered? How did you do it? I would like to hear any success stories?
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I always try to maintain the philosophy that my tenants deserve privacy unless they are damaging the premises and hurting other tenants.I also have regretted whenever I've stuck my nose past that line and tried to giv...
I recently came back from a class provided by HAR. The instructor of the class said the Houston market will experience an increase of inventory in 2015. Currently the average inventory stays between 2.5-2.9 months. ...