I was shopping an apartment for a syndicated investment this past week and was drilling the property managers on various topics. One of the topics that I have been getting a wide variety of answers is when I ask the q...

Hello everyone- My tenant has moved out and the place smells. Neighbors have reported seeing the tenant’s guest smoking so this is the reason for the odor. My tenant attempted to disguise the odor with really smelly d...

I’m working on purchasing a duplex which has a 1 bedroom unit that has a noticeable cigarette smoke odor to it. My property manager let me know that in order to convert that to a non-smoking unit I would want to go th...

I have an older house that I recently rehabbed.  We put replaced the old wood decking with new.  I am trying to decide if I should stain the deck or if I should paint the deck?  I am leaning towards painting it thinki...

I’ve seen lots of advice that recommends to paint all rentals a single color. Which I get all the reasons why. But my question is, do you really paint the entire rental one color? Common areas, bedrooms, bathrooms, ki...

Ok... so maybe i didnt do everything right.. bought my first house.. remodeled the house as if id want to live in it, its not in a nice area but the house itself was nice.. all new tile, carpet, bathroom, appliances.....

There is always discussion on finding contractors here, thought I would share my experience. I wanted to see the difference in quality vs pricing of contractors without being in a time constraint on my first flip. I n...

Hello Fellow Investors,I am in the process of buy my first rental property in Chicago area.. It is a HUD (insured) home that only need cosmetic update. HUD PCR report reveals that everything is in working order. I hav...

Our tenants of 7 years are moving out next. They have asked to break the lease with 11 months remaining. When I went over to prepare for a showing I noticed there was water damage on the ceiling and a bunch of tiles a...

Tenant vacated, house has laminate, tenant did a good job cleaning- except...  The main living areas smell like dog.  Not pee.  Just like wet dog.  Tenant mopped.My only guess on what to try is to repaint- but I would...