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County called it a change of use. $10,800 gone.
I spend most of my time on land and zoning, which makes this one embarrassing. I checked the wrong thing. 1970s ranch, four bedrooms, two baths, bought at $198k in a small city on…
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Co-living and room-rental investing means renting individual bedrooms within a property rather than leasing the whole unit to one tenant or household.
Log in to followI spend most of my time on land and zoning, which makes this one embarrassing. I checked the wrong thing. 1970s ranch, four bedrooms, two baths, bought at $198k in a small city on…
I've been building a buy list for room rentals for a while and kept hitting the same wall: I could find 4 bed houses all day, and I had no idea which ones I'd be allowed to rent b…
I hold two land parcels that produce nothing but tax bills. The house was supposed to be the thing that paid those bills, so last year I bought a 4 bed 2.5 bath in a 1990s subdivi…
I bought this thing because I wanted income without picking up a second job, and the whole test was whether a room-by-room house can survive being run by somebody else. Three year…
I've been trying to work out where I fit on the service side and this landed in my lap. An owner with a six room house had five people move out in the same two weeks (student cale…
Two houses, 7 rooms total, both running as separate room leases. Through 2023 every single lease ended between July 15 and August 31 because that's when I signed the first ones an…
Seller had a 5 bed 2 bath, about 2,300 square feet, ten minutes from a commuter rail stop in a mid size metro. Listed at $287k. His whole pitch was a one page sheet showing five r…
I own a three bedroom, live in it, and had two empty rooms doing nothing but holding boxes. Six weeks ago both are rented and I want to write down what happened while it's still f…
Closed on a 4 bed 2 bath last year, decent street, mid-size city, no HOA. Whole house lease would have been around $1,850. I filled four rooms at $675, so $2,700, and I furnished…