I am looking for a guide when it comes to updates to the outside of a home. I am talking clean up and very basic planting to make it look good. Also if a small tree needs to be pulled or cut down. How can I best estim...
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I am curious as to what you are seeing in your market. Not looking for marketing speak like "My Market is on FIRE!" I am looking for what the numbers look like. Are DOM increasing? have there been price cuts in your m...
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One of my homes has a power line going directly from the street pole to the house and yesterday the tenant informed me that one of the trees looked dead and could blow onto the power line going through my yard. The th...
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We had a LOW inflation report today (7/11/24), big win!! Today's low CPI inflation report helped bring mortgage rates and bond yields lower. Headline (total) inflation for the past month was negative, -0.1%.
Core inf...
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President Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, testified that extending the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’ of 2017 is essential to avoiding economic catastrophe.
Part of those cuts included the short-term...
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I'm reading a book by Larry Loftis right now. In it he mentions using a buyer-broker instead of a normal broker. By using
the buyer broker he gets 1/2 of the broker commission or 1.5% the sale at closing.
This is ne...
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WHOLESALERS, IT'S TAX TIME!!! HERE'S A TIPI know, it's lengthy, but five minutes could save you thousands . . .Working with other wholesalers to buy and/or sell investment properties is a great strategy because it all...
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Hello There, I'm Damon, out of Philadelphia ,Pa. I currently have a 4 unit that I used my va home loan entitlement to obtain back in 2012. Been doing renovations ever since. Have 2 tenants with a 3rd tenant moving i...
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Hey everyone,My upstairs tenant had some leak issues from the attic this past week due to a leaky AC unit. The leak was just resolved, but as a result there are 2 big holes in the ceiling (about 1’x2’). The HVAC guy r...
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Does anyone have experience installing heated pipe tape in units that have already been built and are occupied? Last year when it hit -40F, we had several units with frozen pipes running along exterior walls freeze de...