I'm exploring the idea of offering optional paid activities to my guests like personal chef, back country skiing, mountain climbing lessons, UTV rentals, horse back riding, fly-fishing and the like. Our STR is on the ...

There has been a growing trend recently of individuals looking to house hack single-family homes. While the traditional approach involves buying a multi family property, living in one unit and renting out the other - ...

I own a 3-unit property: a duplex and a carriage house. In the signed leases, I included a pet policy for the carriage house and the upstairs unit in the duplex. The final unit to sign - the lower apartment in the dup...

I have not seen this problem addressed in short sale discussions.
I am losing some short sales because of the Private Mortgage Insurance. The lenders refuse to discount the mortgage because the insurance company deman...

I am near Charlotte NC and just went under contract with a small complex near Asheville NC.  I would love to start networking locally, but also start mentoring as I learn more on the commercial side.Sorry if this has ...

I don't have any experience owning an investment property, but after getting my finances and credit in order while studying the tricks of the trade for the last year I think I'm ready to move forward.I was focused on ...

I'm currently under contract to close on a 4-plex on June 24 and found out that there's a registered sex offender living in one of the units on a month-to-month lease. I have to live in one of the units (mortgage reas...

My roommate (44M) and I (25M) want to move out of our apartment and into a house. We are both employed in high-income jobs and are well kept and put together people. Good tenants.However, I have heard landlords are wa...

What are things that you wished you had found out about prospective tenants, before approving them? Things that probably would have made you not consider them?In the next 6 months or so my roommate will be moving out ...