As homeowners face rising monthly expenses for utilities, insurance, property taxes and loan payments, they may look around their home and see potential revenue from an unused basement. Fantasizing ...

The strategy of renting your English basement to help cover a mortgage still holds, only now you might make more money leasing it nightly than monthly. The industry analysis firm Airdna says DC ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover residential real estate, including buying, selling and trends. Choosing to rent out a spare room in your home to make ends ...

Basement apartments are often thought to be dark, unsafe dwellings with low-ceilings and poor living conditions. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Especially in our current housing crises, safe ...

Choosing a home to rent can be really tough, as you don't know what the living conditions will actually be like until you've signed the contract and all your stuff is moved in - and then it's too late ...

Q: I rented a house several months ago and signed a one-year lease. The property manager mentioned some past water problems in the unfinished basement, but said the property had been regraded to ...