I've been living in an apartment the last couple of years while accumulating more money for my rental investments.  In May of this year I started to have some a/c issues.  The weather was getting warmer (gets REALLY h...

So I was on Yahoo, and it said that Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day. Now granted, he is 6'4" which makes for a large guy, and I am pretty sure that swimming consumes alot of calories, but come on, 12,000 cal...

We have always allowed tenants to repaint the walls as along as they return the paint color back (in a professional manner) to our original colors by move-out time.This policy hasn't worked out too well for us we have...

Hi everyone.I am planning to paint my unit (2 bedrooms). I want to use one color for whole unit. I am going to buy pint at Sherwin-Williams. Any suggestion which color I can use for painting?Thank you.

Tenants want to paint one of the bedrooms pink (right now it's painted a very muted yellow/gray called "earth smoke"). I'm tempted to let them do it as a consolation prize in lieu of something else they asked to do bu...

Hey everyone! I desperately need some help!! Last September my husband, my brother-in-law, and myself partnered and bought a our first flip project. We bought the property for 122,0000. After a complete rehab, two con...

We have a tenant in one of our duplexes who is storing furniture, baby gear and other household items on the front porch as well as dropping cigarette butts off the back deck onto the sitting area of our tenants below...

I just completed re-habbing my upper unit in my duplex. Turned out really nice. Most who came to look at it said it's the nicest they've seen. Hence it rented in 4 days. I do just about everything myself, so I save a ...

    Today my wife and I went out shopping and on the way home we visited a possible lead. Once we stepped inside this apartment building we came face to face with one of the biggest side effects of being a real estate...

Aside from the obvious, make sure payments are in on time and property is taken care of (which is in lower tenants lease as his responsibility)How often do you guys and gals check up on your properties both inside and...