Top five buyer-friendly housing markets offer price cuts and increased inventoryPhoenix leads the pack with over 31% of listings showing price cuts as national housing inventory reaches a five-year highAccording to Realtor.com, these are five of the ten most "buyer-friendly" areas:Phoenix, ArizonaThe number of active listings in Phoenix posted a 23.1% year-over-year jump last month.Tampa, FloridaRoughly 29.9% of its listings in May had experienced a price cutDenver, ColoradoThe proportion of up-for-sale homes that have undergone price cuts came in at 29.4%.Austin, TexasIn May, according to the report.

@Chris Seidler When traveling for business to multiple rental properties, the IRS allows you to allocate travel expenses proportionally based on time spent and business purpose.

When you co-invest with your IRA (say 50/50), everything—income, expenses, even improvements—has to be split proportionally between you and the IRA.

Returns are proportional to risk, effort and barriers to entry.  

Hey Alex,This depends on how the sales are structured, specifically whether you're doing an installment sale/land contract or just a sale with a promissory note and how you elect to recognize income.Long story short:With an installment sale, you recognize the gain proportionally over the term of the contract (IRC Section 453), or you can elect to take it all in one year.With a land contract, the treatment isusually the same as above.For a promissory note, it's pretty similar, but interest income is considered ordinary income.

Here in Northwest Ohio, Bowling Green State University is a college town with very limited housing and very high demand, and getting into the market is an expensive (proportionally, this is Ohio after all) proposition.

Nothing wrong with eating out or "splurging" but it needs to be done proportional to your budget/income.

Risk and reward are not inversely proportional - no one gets more reward for less risk, and just about everyone understands this internally because everyone would do it if not the case - but the LPs wanted to believe they were smarter than the next guy, or knew someone smarter than the next guy.

When unit 2 runs cold water, the pressure drops on the cold water side of the fixture, but the hot water stays at pressure, which increases the proportion of hot water coming out of the shower head in unit 1.

Then you own the LLC and can transfer the property into it.If you transfer the property into that LLC the way it is then technically you just gave your friend ownership of the house proportional to his ownership of the LLC.I'm not an attorney, so take that with a grain of salt.