We are remodeling a rental property in a suburb of Akron Ohio and installing a new tub with tile surround. We obviously need to keep it economical, but I would like to do something creative, and I'm bored with our pas...

What is the best place to get business cards made?  We have used vista print for our first batch of business cards and they turned out nice.  It is time to make some more for real estate investing and also for me as a...

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We’re looking for some advice on upgrading our 90’s kitchen and bathrooms. We will be doing the work ourselves, we plan on renting it out when we move out later this year. We already got rid of the wallpaper...

Hello everyone! Just submitted an offer for a duplex in Detroit - Bagley District Neighbor hood. It's listed at 160k with 6 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. I've been looking for a deal for over a year now and this looks...

In July, my business partner and I put a single family home in a B or B+ rural neighborhood under contract for $140K.  The owner was a widowed elderly lady who was living in a nursing home and her children were left w...

I am reconstructing after near total demo , and was looking at a quartz or replica ish countertop for $40/sq ft. Vicostone is really nice, silostone is really nice -- it feels a lot more elegant than granite. I also l...

First, sorry for the long post! I have my first rehab project under contract and having just finished up the @JScott books on this topic, I've used his strategy as a starting point. I've built the below SOW and ...

I'm closing on my next project in a week. A small 2-bed/1 bath ~850 sq ft house we are gutting to the studs. I will be subbing out most of the work but also putting in ~2 months of my own labor. While I have done my f...

What would you do: refinish hardwood and take a vacancy or put in laminate?The properties I manage locally have nice, dark hardwood floors.  After a few years or wear and tear, they are going to need to be refinished....

Our tenant, without permission, painted original shellac woodwork in her apartment. We are restorers and this was original untouched woodwork in a 90 year old house.We are of course furious; she is non repentant but w...