This year, I had an impressive first in my landlording career. I've already had to change out two legacy bathroom sink drain assembles in two rentals in two months. Anyone who has had to do work on bathroom vanity dra...

Hello BiggerPockets,After about half a year of learning and searching for my first investment property, I've finally found a property which I plan to “house-hack”. We are in contract now and the inspection period ends...

Hello! New to STR and new to BiggerPockets. I am a full time real estate agent and have just reached the point where I can start investing myself. I found a place in a vacation area (2.5 hours away from me by car) tha...

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I'm a soon-to-be first time homeowner once my father gives me a house he owns via a quitclaim deed. I am just wondering if there are any legal/financial (as far as taxes go) implications in answering "...

Luxury vinyl tile versus ceramic tile. What’s  your opinion? LVT is obviously easier lay. Ceramic tile can last a very long time unless somebody purposely damages it or drop something heavy on it and cracks it.

IN the Marine Corps I studied what is called Combat Hunter. We took hours of classes on how to identify human existence while patrolling though rural terrain.

We learned how to identify many things about t...

I have a tenant in a triplex that owes 1 month rent.  I told him I was going to start the eviction process two weeks ago and haven’t heard from him since.  (There have been ongoing problems with his rent payments). Th...

A tenant asked me if she could paint the kitchen/bedroom in her unit. She's a good tenant who takes care of the property. Nothing in lease about this, what are pros & cons?For those of you who have allowed tenan...

I know that a lot of investors don't bother to repair a lot of the problems found in an inspection report. But how do you choose what to address and what not to? When I talk with the inspectors, naturally they tend to...