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Hi everyone,I'm excited to introduce myself, and I'm looking forward to discussing RE with all of you in the future. I am a beginner investor in Gillette, WY area. I have studied RE for some time by reading books, att...
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I've been involved with real estate investing in some capacity for about 30 years. Even when I ran my multi-state public accounting firm, I still dabbled in buying and selling single family homes. Of course, life was ...
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I was just reading on EPA's web site about the April 22, 2010 requirement that contractors working on pre-1978 housing will have to have EPA certification for lead remediation...http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/renovation...
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How does everyone review/approve tenant applications? Is it more acceptable to approve on a first come first serve basis, or wait for several applications and pick the most qualified? Also, does everyone call each ap...
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I thought this might be an interesting topic. I'm talking about during pre-screening before you have run an application. Something that may not be a DQ but sets off your bad gut feeling (rightly or wrongly). I'm not r...
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I have a property in which the local town needs 1,300 square feet of land to widen the road. In concept I'm okay with it, but the project doesn't provide any real value to my property either. In addition to this per...
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Can I deny a tenant based on things I find on their social media pages? For example, I visited the Facebook page of one applicant and her most recent post is asking where she can get fake pay stubs made. On another ap...
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Hey Gang! This seems like an appropriate question for the forums. How much do ADUs cost from start to finish? I think this question is dependent on a few factors. 1. Contractor 2. Local City Requirements 3. Time and M...
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My family is relocating to Seattle, they are currently renting a nice house house in Kirkland not far from Google.
They are wondering where they should buy with value in mind? They are looking for a larger single fam...
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2020 will forever be marked as a “watershed” moment for many millennials. From the rise in e-commerce to work from home, the pandemic accelerated our lives by decades. Millennials, which constitute the largest segmen...