All Forum Posts by: Colleen F.

Lack of Insulation is not a place where people want authenticity. If the windows are special that may be a reason to retain them as selling point. Refinishing wood floors rather then replacing (might save you $). For a house like this both for comps and rehab talk to not just anyone but to people who like old houses. They will know the market. Some features will help retain your value. Others are still negatives. Also renovating consistent with the style is important. Good Luck!

We have had multiple homes with septic and lots of wash with no issue so soap damaging the septic doesn't hold water for me. No personal experience with a doing this in a multi-family but would be interested in the answer as we are in a similar situation purchasing a multi-family place and wonder about installing onsite laundry. The place we are working on has two high volume machines onsite now for the owner and his family. The new lower volume washing machines are probably a help. We would likely replace with them as they use half the water. The number of bedrooms vs septic size we thought matters as well. We will effectively have 9 bedrooms but the septic is 8 bedrooms so we will start with just installing a low volume washer in the single family home and see how it goes. How many bedrooms do you have ?

go to the online assessors database at vision appraisals.com for the town. (I think all of RI is there). You should be able to look up addresses right by your unit. Although it will tell you the town's appraisal what you want is to look at is addresses close to you to see if there was anything sold that you can judge what the value in the area is doing. you can see what he bought the property for too. Hope it helps

Brian, I'm in MA too but our rental is in RI. For RI, there is the non-resident landlord registration and the other RI issue is the lead laws are stronger. We are just now working on a multi-family and the lead will come in to play. I don't know providence we rent to URI students in Narragansett. RI. Student market is different in many ways then regular rentals. you get a little of student market in providence too I think.