Brad F.
Solar Photovoltaic on Home - Lease Addendum
I own solar photovoltaic on my primary right now, which I plan on converting into a rental in a month or two. It is a great system and has reduced my power bill to practically nothing all year long.
When I rent th...
Steven Birch
Creative Design Presents Great BRRRR Opportunity?
Hey Guys! WARNING LONG POST ALERTI recently ran across a property that presents all kinds of potential but not without great risk. I'm looking for insight from the group at large on a couple areas I'm not familiar wit...
Lisa Brooks
Consolidating natural gas lines to incentivize potential tenants
Hey BP peeps -
I own a 3-flat in Chicago. Live in one apartment, rent out the other two. I've had a lot of work done to this 100 year old building during the 7 years that I've owned it including work to fix gas rel...
Stephen Glover
Property Management Fees- What You Need To Know
Far too often landlords seeking residential property management services are asking one question for the initial vetting of the service. “What is your management rate?” Unfortunately, sometimes this is the only questi...
Tom Lipps
Walmart Paint in Rental? Color Place Country White
Hi BP,I just bought my first rental property (Duplex in a C+ area). $82k purchase price.I'm going to be painting this Saturday and found Brandon's article about using Walmart's cheap paint; Color Place Country White. ...
Jason Krasavage
Chicago Rentals - 2021 Property Tax Hike, Passing onto Tenants?
Curious about everyone's thoughts on this. 2020 was a weird year for so many reasons, but one result of the pandemic here in Chicago was a temporary decrease in Assessed Value of properties for the 2020 fiscal year. O...
Jesus Moreno
How to proceed with non-separate utilities
Can anyone help me with this dilemma? So I have two units, that the electricity for both is under one meter. How do I proceed to rent out these units? If I pass the electricity costs to the tenants, then I leave the ...
Marcelino Chua
Property management fee "too good to be true?"
Hi All,
New to this forum... And a new "potential" investor to boot...
I'm in the process of purchasing a 6 unit property (target closing date is in Jan2008). So I don't actually own the building yet... Right now, I...
Peyton Zachrich
Minimum Closing Costs for $3000 Lot of Land?
In a recent acquisition of a portfolio of houses, I got a 0.2 acre lot of land in Cincinnati (Westwood neighborhood). I'm trying to sell it to one of the neighbors, not to build just to expand their yard, for its appr...
Joshua Dorkin
Should you use an agent or sell your home FSBO?
I thought we'd kick off the Selling Real Estate forum with a basic question that anyone selling their home has to deal with:
Should you use an agent to sell your home, or save the commission and sell it yourself as a...