Additionally, you need to have losses to deduct --- that's kinda the opposite of making money. 

Others state the opposite by focusing on the deals and the buyers will come.

CA RE will always be a good bet as long as you are patient and stay on the opposite side of what everyone else is doing.

In fact it has the exact opposite effect, it reduces cash flow, when the investor begins to understand the value of cash.If a property can not cash flow with a hypothetical 100% financing scenario it will never cash flow.

However, I'm not sure if you're saying its similar to my deal due to the appreciation and what you had to put into it or if you are showing an example of a deal thats opposite of mine because you didnt have to use your own money. where I live: New Jersey/Philadelphia it would be difficult to find a property that cashflowed like this with an FHA loan. 

A poorly ran HOA Will have the opposite effect.  

But going into contract opposite to that is perfectly fine.  

Marc Hughes, the opposite of this statement seams intuitive, but not this statement.

IF $850k is relatively expensive for your market then you may not like the prospective tenant-buyers you find.However selling using seller financing in a high interest rate environment can be attractive to the opposite end of the spectrum from the tenant-buyer side. 

I agree Don and in my earlier days in Northern CA brokerage activity it was common for listing agent to take less than selling agent.. when I moved North to OR WA it was the opposite listing agent would take a larger cut and they would justify it saying they did that because they had to pay for advertising and marketing etc..