If your spouse doesn’t work full-time, there’s a chance they could potentially meet the requirements instead.There is plenty of information on BiggerPockets if you want to dive deeper into what’s needed to achieve REPS and what the benefits are.Your CPA is pointing you in the right direction: the key issue isn’t just depreciation on its own, it’s how all of your real estate deductions and losses interact with your income.

No major structural issues.

Try owners that are self managing and having issues filling their units - Try to convince them to allow you to lease and once you have that relationship you can move towards full management. 

I’ve had far worse issues with US citizens.

The customer with “legal issues”.

@Karla SosaWe use AppFolio and overall, we’ve been really happy with it.What we like:Super easy listing and background verification processACH payments make rent collection smoothBuilt-in CRM for handling maintenance ticketsTenant messaging option (so we don’t have to give out our personal phone numbers)If you have the budget, their Smart Maintenance feature is worth checking out — it routes tenant calls through a call center and sends notifications to you, which really cuts down on handling small tenant issues yourself.What could be better:The accounting side could use improvement.

Sometimes I feel like alot of us feel like we are the only ones dealing with all of these issues!

What do you have in reserves to cover mortgage payments in case of unforseen issues?

They can ignore the 400 sqft issue if the debt coverage and global financial picture make sense.

Many investors are running into the issue of realizing that their property’s resale value is nowhere near the value it appraised for during the refinance.If you’re planning on buying and holding for a very long time, you might end up in an okay position.