Hey Everyone,I've been looking to get involved in duplexes in Chicago for the past few months.  After putting my first offer down last week and being passed up because of too low of a down payment, I've started to loo...

Hi BP, 
I recently bought a duplex in Massachusetts which has hot water baseboard already installed in the first floor's rental. We will be installing mini-splits for heat and AC in the second unit. 
We are wonderin...

my tenant had a $350 electric bill last month, almost 3000 kwh. 1600 sqft brick house built in 2005.  What is the most likely culprit for this? I have someone coming to check out the ac this week anyways. Any other po...

Happy New Year BPers!  I'm looking for best practices advise/help.  I recently purchased my first rental units back in May and all has been good.  I have a single fam and a duplex.  The tenants in the SFH called me th...

I have 2 properties that share a well. The tenant that has the well hooked up to their electric just got their electric shut off due to nonpayment so neither properties have water. Not sure what I can or should do her...

I was just over to my garage , I was getting a refrigerator to replace a bad one . I rent a house there too . I go up to get some water out of the hose and .................nothing  ( house is on a well ) . So I go ar...

Or do my renters need to stop being idiots?I'm on water heater #2 and I swore that if anything else went wrong I was going to replace the gas water heater with an electric water heater.Well I have just been informed t...

OMG! Help! My parents' have had a rental property in northern Michigan for decades. I came to visit July 2 and I'm stuck here. I need to get rid of a squatter for them before I can drive back south to Texas. This stor...

Hi All, looking for a little advice.I started renting my house a little over a year ago.  Everything went fine and they moved out when their lease was up, (well 15 days early but... they had paid for the month, eventu...