A recent article in the WSJ covers how Amazon is partnering with property managers and property owners to put Alexa and other smart home technology in multi-family and other rentals. I see a long list of pros and cons...

I would appreciate any recommendation for a cigarette smoke detector that either can be checked remotely by WiFi or that has a memory function.  I have a tenant in one of my units in a nonsmoking building who is smoki...

I do not want to turn this into a real estate vs. paper asset (stocks, bonds, etc) debate.  I am new to real estate investing and have the majority of my net worth in paper assets.  For those of you who invest in pape...

I'm looking for property management software can help me track specific items in rent controlled buildings. I'm currently using spreadsheets, and want to move off of them. I've looked at many programs but cant find...

I went through a final walk through before closing and everything that I requested to be fixed seemed to either be fixed or had been "tacked in place" to appear fixed. I got it. The sellers really didn't have the m...

What are folks thinking about Puerto Rico these days?  Yeah, I know they're into it with hedge funds over government and utility company debt. Is this an opportunity?  What is lending like there?  Is this area tenant ...

There is a smart thermostat in the house I am renting.  My landlord would like me to connect the thermostat to my WiFi so that he has access through the nest app to the thermostat.  He hasn't mentioned wanting to acti...

Hi All,I have great credit and my net worth is about 500K but much of it is tied up on a 401k or appreciated stock that I'd rather not sell due to taxation issues.  Are there lenders out there that will give me the ca...

I was quoted 30k for a security system from Access Control Technologies which installs hardware from PTISecurity. They did say it was worst case scenario and it was sight unseen. I am going to have them come out to ac...

Does anyone offer this type of thermostat for their tenants to control?  Curious if anyone has experienced any pitfalls with giving the tenant the access.  Been looking at it a bit and it seems like the landlord can s...