I bought a short sale multifamily building last winter and have been taking care of the deferred maintenance and increasing the occupancy with new tenants appropriately screened by my property manager. All was going ...

I woke up this morning to the sound of someone banging my door. Turns out it was an old/ex tenant that moved out earlier this month. He was upset to find out via mail that he is not receiving any of his security depos...

I've had a new tenant move in to one of my four family units. The tenants have always internally developed a schedule to roll the large city trash cans from the rear of the building to the street for trash pickup...

I got into a discussion about expenses in an earlier post about the 50% rule and as many have said, history tends to run in line with it.So I took that as a rule, and backwards calculated purchase prices using the 50%...

In today's wall street journal, there is an article about rent control proposals in other places like the the typical spots in California, New York City and now Portland, Seattle,  and others. I think that anyone with...

I would rather build new instead of purchasing something existing. Nearly all the advice is geared towards the latter. How do I use the real estate machinery to purchase land and build a structure? I have access to a ...

I am 17 years old and just graduated from high school with a gpa of 2.3 and have been very frustrated on what path in life I should take. I grew up very poor living in hotel rooms and in bad areas for a lot of my chil...

Folks - Anyone else having their property managed by Reedy and company and are running into any issues recently? The experience was not like this over the last couple of years but seems to have gone downhill recently....

I feel the Seattle area real-estate (including King/Snohomish county) prices has gone up faster than I have ever seen before; the early spring allow so many home buyers to go out to shop and the overall economy and jo...

Hello!I'm wondering what would be the smartest thing to do with the 15k we have. We could either use it all to pay off some of our credit card debt to increase our credit scores and so that when do invest (we want to...