First a little bit of background on the house: it is a 3 bed 1.5 bath cape cod, in an older neighborhood of a class A suburb outside of Milwaukee. It was listed on the MLS, had been bank owned for about 5 years and wa...

I recently posted about a significant wind storm in October causing damage to one my tenants car (windshield and body) when branches from the tree in my driveway fell onto their SUV. This was a significant wind storm,...

My architect and I designed a 3 story townhome. Initially, he had a standard walled-in staircase on the second level but I found a metal guy who provided this unique open staircase concept with just a metal rail bar w...

I'm thiking of buying my first investment property and was wondering what do you think about the market in general these days? Is it too high and likely to crash in the next year or so?

Hello Bay Area house hackers, 
Hope you're doing well. My wife and I currently own a SFH in Sunset, San Francisco. We've been reading up on house hacking and have been considering selling our SFH and buy a duplex / t...

One of my tenants apartment was robbed today. Someone broke the door to their unit and stole some stuff. I was told the cousin of one of my other tenants was staying in her apartment while she was out of town and that...

Are we real estate investors all alone?  Lately I've been talking about real estate a lot to my friends and family, and today I was told by someone that they didn't want to hear about it anymore.  Have you ever experi...

My online ad for a unit that was recently available to rent stipulated that there is no smoking of any kind allowed anywhere on the premises (including the porch stoop, back yard, and driveway).  When asked during the...

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I am serving in the Armed Forces and currently in the Georgia/Alabama part of the country. I am 23, married, and have no kids. Financially I have little debt to income ratio, ...

Hi, I have a question about starting out as a multi-family investor in a stabilizing market... I was wondering if it's a bad idea. Naturally, it seems like the best deals are to be found in a down market, so I'm n...