Countries, companies, jurisdictions can impose all types of obstructions and complexities to make this concept difficult.

Cost seg is basically a way to reclass parts of the building into shorter life assets so you take more depreciation earlier, but the timing of the study and the timing of the tax benefit aren’t the same thing.

@April Vogt, good that you know the basics of Spain and how it is living here.

Everything is basically a second hand opinion from someone else. 

Sticking your hand in the lion cage situations people also have to own up to itReal estate is unique in the business world in that there’s a lot of “selling” of the concept that you can succeed with limited knowledge, no experience and no capital, and plenty of people who believe it.  

But it sounds like I have to pay first and basically ask for a reimbursement?

For 2–4 units, cash flow usually comes down to boring basics more than fancy metrics.

Basically it was a JV type format where they do a fix and flip and find an investor to give them the money for the property = I think they owner financed it as the exit as well (cannot remember). 

That is a basic tenet of project management and something many investors fail to appreciate. 

Basically they do the same thing or sometimes they sign a lease with the landlord and move while the squatter is still there; they occupy some part of the unit like a vacant space (basement), living room couch showing the signed lease from the landlord :-) (squatter don't have a signed lease so this new guy with the signed lease is actually has the right to stay in the house), play loud music, talk too loudly on the phone, watch TV while everyone is asleep etc. etc. so the squatter gets fed up and decides to leave.