Good Morning all, Me and my husband decided to buy a second house as an investment property. I have been looking at the houses in our area for about 6 months now, got approved for up to 500K loan. However, is does not...

From what I've read on prior posts it seems many have the opinion of by self-managing your rental properties, you will not gain any liability protection by owning the asset and performing the property management under...

It might just be me but I'm very leery in trusting people... especially if I've only every interacted with them online.  This might be due to my current career in IT as we are trained to not trust ANYTHING online.  Ho...

I am working on a rehab right now, and I just received a letter from a law office stating that their client was injured on my property by a "piece of wood which was unsecured" when it "fell and struck her on the head....

Hey guys,I'm a newbie who is trying to clear some personal debt and save for a first real estate investment property. I thought I was ready a couple years ago but then we ended up upgrading our primary residence and I...

I have tenants in my small condo with a 6 month lease. We are 5 weeks in. They are my first tenants there. 
Unfortunately, the AC went out twice for them and needs to have a new unit installed. They're angry at me, r...

Last week I was reminded why I made it standard practice to always get at least 3 bids for major repairs. The ac in one of our properties had a leak in the line. Both the ac and furnace worked fine but were 30 years o...

We bought our first home this past summer and didn't realize how bad of condition the walls are. We knew we had a few issues, but now realize almost every wall in the home needs work to look decent.We had planned to s...

Ok, just a off topic question but who would live in any of their rentals as it sits right now if needed too without a choice of which one it is?  Why or why not?Reason I ask is curiousity and also my situation.  When ...

It seemed like only a few years ago that it was a bit simpler to make money in the DFW market, but recently I've been hearing a fair bit of cynicism related to buying and renting single-family homes.  Is this true or ...