While it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of finding and closing deals, building a solid framework in these areas is essential for long-term success and sustainability.A proactive tax strategy allows you to take full advantage of deductions, use the most favorable tax structures, and keep more of your income.

James Dainard also just came out with a House Flipping Framework book.

While it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of finding and closing deals, building a solid framework in these areas is essential for long-term success and sustainability.A proactive tax strategy allows you to take full advantage of deductions, use the most favorable tax structures, and keep more of your income.

So the general order of operations should be:Focus on maximizing depreciation;Then assess REPS or the short-term rental (STR) loophole;If you qualify, look at further ways to drive losses.Of course, this is a general framework—specific facts and circumstances could shift the strategy.

and 2. the existing framework caps increases, which feeds into 1? 

Here's a framework we use when managing a large number of rentals across Texas:1.

Tardus teaches a framework for working with short term leverage in a risk adjusted way, so that you can accelerate your cashflow base to most likely later use long-term leverage in a risk-adjusted way.Hope that helps!

Speed matters in competitive markets, but so does accuracy.So here’s my simple, no-fluff framework to underwrite a rental property in under 30 minutes.

You could get mentorship, operational support, established systems, and a legal/compliance framework, all while managing a territory more independently.

And I was tired of confusing a paycheck with peace.Over the past few years, I stacked the kind of skills the system never taught us:Closed over 140 real estate dealsCompleted two years of law school—sharpening my knowledge of contracts and strategyGot licensed in multiple lines of insurance (life, health, annuities, P&C)Learned how to be the bank—not just borrow from oneBuilt frameworks, coached others, and watched lives transformAnd yet… I was still shrinking myself.Still sitting on a mission while knowing I was built for more.So I walked away.On 3/31, I chose freedom over familiarity.And within weeks, I joined a mastermind led by Tony Robbins, *************, Lisa Nichols, and other icons—because if I was betting on myself, I was going all in.This isn’t just a story about quitting.It’s about stepping into a mission:To teach real estate, financial literacy, and digital strategy to those who’ve been overlooked, underestimated, or simply over it.To build something that outlives me.To help others remember what thriving feels like.For the first-gens.For the legacy-minded.For the ones who know they were never crazy—they were just early.What we do next is everything.— Brandy JohnsonFrom Survival to Strategy, take the first step!