In addition if I paid a tenant to $crew me, it may cause me to lose sleep.

Then the housing market will crash,  all of the home owners will lose equity, the government will bail out the banks and that will be paid for by the American taxpayers

Home pricing in many areas are starting to soften and investors especially are losing properties left and right because they overpaid and over-leveraged them.

Love the community and the people in it.I bought my first property, a single family home, about 18 months ago.

If you keep it in cash as you do dollar cost averaging, you risk losing value to inflation.If you think gold is a hedge to inflation, then sure you can do that.You can also potentially put it into TIPS(Treasury Inflation Protected Securities).I personally would just make my life simple and put it all into EFTS now instead of waiting over 10-12 months if that is what you plan to do anyway.

Long-term, quiet, on-time tenants are gold until they start breaking the one rule that causes the most expensive turnover damage: smoking.Here’s the reality of the situation and how to handle it without blowing up your timeline or losing a good tenant unnecessarily.1.

I’ve also seen people place properties in C-corps, and the issue there is the flat 21% tax rate and the fact that you lose the step-up in basis at death when a property is held inside a corporation.

Rent growth is defined by the city, not the property.Here are the city characteristics I would require:A metro population above 1MStrong, sustained population growth (the driver of price and rent increases)Low crime — high crimes do not attract jobs or people.

You lose access to long term capital gains rates, and the gain is treated as ordinary business income.

Here is my advice:1.) the people you work with matter more than the market you choose.