The IRS discusses vacation home maintenance days.  They use examples where a family performs maintenance on a home for a week and the week is not considered personal use (it is additional to the 14 days of personal us...

I am looking for conventional financing options for modular homes. I am referring to a factory built home that is set on a permanent foundation. In some scenarios we are considering building the roofs on site (this wi...

Hello i have been a general contractor for thirteen years I started out in the trades (Framing, tile install, cabinets, decks, fences) and moved on to building houses from ground up and finally for the last seven year...

Hi,I've been looking for a property for about 8 months now and am now getting very close to purchasing a place. I've learned a ton in the past 8 months and have focused on "doing the math", and I have pretty ridiculou...

I'm new to flipping and wanted to know should I be paying a general contractor to provide me with a scope of work?  I have a potential deal on the table and my lender is requesting a scope of work.  So I went to a GC ...

We use a GC and a crew for the flips that we renovate. We are looking at running multiple projects at a time and I wanted to see how you all balance your crew between the projects.

I have seen many posts of people w...

We have two 4/2.5 SFRs in Murrieta, CA that were built in 1988. They have never been updated so they still have those ugly oak cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms as well as the old fixtures and plastic shower/tubs ...

@J Scott inspired me with his diary of a new construction project to do one of my own.  So not to be outdone, I'm actually going to do two.  This one will be for a project that we have recently completed.  I'll add ne...

Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Columbus.

Purchase price: $36,000

Cash invested: $50,000

1200 sq. ft. Single-family 3bd,1.5 baths purchased from a wholesaler. ...

I recently bought a house to flip, and it turns out it will cost much more to renovate than I'd budgeted. While talking with a new contractor the other day, I told her I was considering trying to sell to another inves...