Andy J.
Houses with treasure inside!
Have you ever bought a house and found something inside that was worth some money? Antiques, currency, jewelry, Jimmy Hoffa's dead body? I want to know what interesting treasures have you found?
I recently bought a...
Fred Ramos
Raw Sewage treatment
Am currently rehabbing a house and can hear the water gushing under the house (Crawl Space) when toilet is flushed. I'll be cutting into the floor and fear that there may be raw sewage under the house (the leak wasn'...
Pete Sailhamer
Enforce "No Smoking" rule on current tenants in new Purchase?
I am closing on an 8-unit shortly and have been debating back and forth on this one. I have a no smoking rule in our lease that I use for all our rentals. However a couple of the current tenants smoke as it has been...
Blake Johnston
Converting Smoking Unit to Non-Smoking Unit
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...
Ann Bellamy
Investor loses father and step-mother to carbon monoxide - check and replace your CO detectors
A few days ago, I received an email from a real estate investor in my network. He recently flew to Italy to cope with the carbon monoxide poisoning of his dad and step mother while they were vacationing there. His ...
Drew Farnese
Tell us your war stories from viewing occupied multi families
I'm in the market for a multi family, and this week alone has been FULL of stories.
To start off, I guess some tenants just don't give a rats ass when a potential buyer is looking at their place...and ...
Cameron Skinner
What's you best War Story
Mine has to be when I rented to the manger of the Bottle Stoper, a local bar whose moto is "if you don't have a gun or a knife will issue one at the door." I was young and dumb at the time and she showed up with 4 mon...
Ted Kaasch
Tell Us Your Real Estate Horror Story
On a recent podcast of REIA Radio #70 with Jamil Damji was asked this question. He responded that they found a dead body in the house he was walking. What have you found in your investments that make people cringe?
Shannon McKenna
Seeing Through the Eyes of a Flipper
Hello Flippers!Here's my story: I'm new to the real estate game- just establishing my funding and obsessively farming an area in my city that I KNOW is going to kill it in the next 5 years.My strategy is buy and hold,...
Pandu Chimata
Getting rid of smell
Hello Team, i am about to buy a property that is has very very strong smell inside. It looks like several cats were there for a long time. Unless I clean the smell, we cannot work there. Currently all the doors and wi...