Hey Philly area BP'ers,Wondering if anyone has any experience or recommendations on helping me estimate teardown costs.House is a brick SFR, small lot, ~900 sqft, 2 floor building, public utilties, mostly gutted insid...

Has anybody submitted an OPRA (open public records act) request to targeted cities/towns. I'm filling out applications now for 1. Vacant Homes and home owner addresses. 2. Code Violations and 3 Tax delinquents. (BP po...

Facebook to build 1500 apts to go along with it's 1 mil sqft office expansion. I guess they are trying to be good citizens. 20% for low to mid income folks. What do you think?http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-answ...

I run a mix use building with residential on upper floors, retail stores on 2nd and offices on 3rd and 4th. Currently the building is open to the public on weekdays and Locked at night and on weekends. I am planning t...

BP Folks, have you seen this potential new legislation in the works for California?  NYT Article: A Bold, Divisive Plan to Wean California from CarsFeels like it benefits major developers the most but also wondering i...

Hello BP,I've never dealt with a situation like this before, so I could really use the expertise of the BP community.  This is a lot of information and questions for one thread, so I'll try to break it up using bullet...

Hello everybody,I have read a lot of the old postings related to estimating the cost basis for depreciation of a rental property; however, I am not clear yet on how to answer the following question:In 2013 I bought a ...

Here's my issue- I would like to install a driveway behind my building but there's a support cable (which is holding up a light pole) right in the middle of my tree lawn where the drive would go. I outlined the cable ...

How does one go about determining the highest and best use of a particular piece of real estate?   I purchased a 10 acre tract in non-restricted, non-zoned area on a rather popular road connecting two rural cities jus...

Hi,I own a multifamily property in Inglewood, CA. It was originally built as a 6 unit ( 6x 2br) in the 1960s. In the late 80's the owner converted it into 4 units (2x2br 2x5br) in order to get a conventional loan refi...