I invest for cash flow...Every pro advises to leverage...I get it when the market is going up. How about when market is at the top or almost there. Isn’t dangerous to invest with leverage ? Just like the gains are mul...

I might find myself with $10k, and if I do, I want to be able to use $8K of it be a private investor because:

a) I feel I can get the return in 90 - 120 day, if it's a rehab project.
b) Duh! It's better then a bank....

I have a question about how to handle the cash flow for two of my properties.

One is a four-plex that I'm rehabbing and will hopefully flow nicely. There is little appreciation as it's in a small town where prices ...

Not you getting tested...getting the building tested!

As a Home Performance Expert I run into many situations of uncomfortable, unhealthy, and too often unsafe indoor home environments. When it comes to getti...

So I have a duplex and a tenant had 4 friends over and one of the younger ones was playing with a gun and shot his friend in the head and killed him (all early 20’s) unfortunately.   The tenant is moving out because o...

I may be transferring with my job and may need to get rid of my house. It's worth about $160K so that's almost $10K in commissions to a realtor. I'd like to keep all of the equity so I want to sell it myself. The mark...

After offering long term rentals for years, we recently dipped our toe in the short term rental waters.  We have done all the cleaning ourselves when preparing and turning over the home and take care to do as good a j...

So I made a bad decision to rent to family. My sister in law has been renting from my wife and I. She lives in one unit of a duplex with roommates and we live next door in the other. We have been going into each other...

Hello friends,

The quick rub is this: Signed a mo. to mo. lease here in SF on 6-15-2010. Rent is very depressed (roommates) at $435 (all inclusive). Beautiful house, backyard with trees and garden. In the Bayview...

I am thinking of taking a job out of state and during that time I would like to rent out my primary residence which is a one bedroom townhouse in Buckhead/Atlanta. It does have an HOA but they do allow rentals for at ...