This was a Section 8 tenant.  They seem to enjoy leaving the children's toys behind.  After all, when someone gets free subsidies, money is no big deal to them.  Easy come, easy to!  This was a huge three family flat....

I am starting a marketing campaign tailored to estate sales. I believe that someone just passed away and the home is going to be shortly sold after that. I am not too familiar with probates and how they work. Can I pu...

I was going to buy my first rental here in Houston, TX, I was going to put 20% plus pay closing cost on a 94K ranch style property, I'm about to put 30K to acquire this, I think this is excessive, I'm doing something ...

I just bought a foreclosure and am in the process of renovating and getting it ready to put on the market for rent. We were not able to view the property before hand but did have pictures and a assessment of the pr...

Hi,I will be doing a walk through of a HUD home with a flooded basement.  The basement flooded because the electricity was cut to the house during a storm.  The basement has not flooded since then.  I will be doing a ...

Wondering if any of you have had similar experiences. Here in Pittsburgh there is a community organization that is "policing" student rental properties and reporting landlords to the City zoning officials. There was a...

Hello BP members, newbie in REI needs help and advice....I was driving for $$ and came across this boarded up vacant property. Start to lookup the address and found out that it was foreclosed 2 years ago for several t...

Hi guys, I'm happy to announce that im officially a full time real estate agent. I completed the pre-licensing course in April and passed the NC broker exam the beginning of May. I recently decided to hang my license ...

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Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Clarkston.

Purchase price: $105,000

House was gifted to me by one of my customers, house was basically uninhabitable after he passed ...