The hot season is coming and it's time to get the evaporative coolers (swamp coolers) ready for summer.  Evaporative coolers function by sucking the hot dry air through filter pads of aspen or plastic mesh that are sa...

After reading a few of Brandon Turner and David Greene's books, I am ready to jump into the world of real estate investing. While I love my job as a financial advisor, my goal is to build a side hustle that eventually...

Good afternoon,I was just notified by my tenant that he was weedeating around the foundation of the house, and ended up catching a rock and flinging it through a pair of french doors.  The doors will cost $800 to repl...

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I am 5'11' (almost 6 ft) 158 lbs and look really lean when I stand in front of a mirror. I get motivated when I see muscle men at the Gym or couple of my friends when I meet them. I go to the Gym for a week an...

I like to mountain bike.Road biking was fun for a short bit, but after working as a bike messenger while going to college, it made normal road biking feel REALLY boring and ruined it for me. I have never really like ...

Good afternoon!Just looking to sharpen my skills for commercial multi family. I am knowledgable with small multi family but I am just looking for guidance in terms of properly assessing/ underwriting commercial multi ...

I like to be proactive on some maintenance issues . So today was sewer snaking day . A full 10 hours of running the sewer snake down 7 different sewer lines . Some may ask why ?  But I have found that if I do this onc...

So for the last year or so, I have been thinking more about physical health. I’ll be 50 in less than a year. Overall I do not personally know any active, long-term investors that actually smoke. Maybe they are there I...

My partners and I in Illinois are teaming up with some west coast (WC) investors to buy a decent sized apartment complex in rural Indiana. We’ve done some syndications and we done partnerships before but this time we ...

Hey people has anyone dealt with Chicago city violations. I just got recently hit with Chicago city violations with exterior violations like window replacements and owner ID sign missing. I never dealt with Chicago ci...