ENJOYn the 53 metro areas surveyed for the March RE/MAX National Housing Report‚ the average number of home sales increased 9.9% over sales in March 2014 and were 33.9% higher than February sales. The increase from Fe...

Have Empathy for your Landlord. We all get it...receiving news of a rent increase can be frustrating for a tenant who's balancing their own financial responsibilities. However, Landlords face even greater cost pressur...

Hi Everyone, we have been acquiring single family rentals (>10% cap rate) in St.Paul and Minneapolis the last 12 months and we are noticing the demand for affordable single family rental (1100 - 1500)  is increasin...

My wife and I are coming up on our 1 year of owning our first rental property (Duplex that we live in one side and have updated it, have tenants on the other side and have done minimal updates). We remember of the 4 y...

Honolulu recently passed a bill that gives some pretty intimidating enforcement teeth to an existing law, which takes effect Aug. 1st.  The existing law states that STRs are only allowed in Resort zones or if the unit...

The market potential for existing-home sales in June was estimated to be 5.47 million at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR), down 2.5 percent compared to last month, and 13.1 percent lower than one year ago,...

I apologize in advance for a very long post.
We are first time home buyers in a very competitive market (Seattle). Neither me nor my wife work in the IT industry so we knew our limitations and went in with realistic ...

I buy single family residential homes and usually spend between $5K-$10K rehabbing them into rentable condition before placing tenants in them. It includes anything from painting to replacing light bulbs to hangin...

I have a coach house that I will begin a rehab of in April, and have been soliciting estimates from GCs to complete all of the work. The existing water and sewer are tied to the main house, which already has low water...

Hello everybody - I am a carpenter and my wife Molly and I are just starting out, trying to learn as much as possible before we find and buy a 4-plex with an FHA next fall. We are in our late 20's have a 3 month old d...