6 Painting Tips for Freshening Up Exteriors

Springtime is the best time to give a home a fresh coat of paint, according to the Paint Quality Institute…Read More

The Outcome of My Lawsuit From an Unhappy Tenant

Several weeks ago, I wrote about how I was getting sued by one of my tenants for the first time ever. To give you a quick recap, I had a tenant sign a lease and then the day she was supposed to move into the property she claimed that it was “uninhabitable” and wanted her money back…Read More

America’s Housing Crisis Recap

The Zillow team is back home in Seattle after hosting our first housing forum “America’s Housing Crisis: Private-Sector Responses and Public Policy Innovation” in New York City, along with Columbia Business School and the Progressive Policy Institute…Read More

Five Tips for Preventing Water Damage in Apartment Units

Clear skies and warm days don’t always mean that apartment properties will remain high and dry. Regardless of the season, apartment units can become shallow water pools if they are not properly maintained. Something as simple as a worn out washer hose can flood an apartment and cause as much water damage beyond wet carpet as can torrential rains…Read More

Should You Pay Cash or Use Hard Money for Your Next Flip Deal?

I had made up my mind.  No more debt. No more credit cards.  No more car payments.  No more hard money loans. Sure, paying 18% was steep.  But that wasn’t the real reason I decided to give up leveraging my fix and flip deals.  Borrowing money had bankrupted me in 2007…Read More