A real estate professional is a distinct designation from the IRS and there are certain rules/thresholds to do before you can call yourself a real estate professional for IRS purposes.You may want to factor in all of the above to see what the cost of cost seg will be and what your decreased tax liability will be for 2017 and what your refund will be from carrying back the NOL to 2016/2015.

One option is to offer a temporary rent reduction rather than a permanent $300 decrease. 

Not repairing anything, which is deferred repairs and CapEx stuff decrease your property value and low rents due as well.

If the price is decreased by say $10k because the seller is not paying $10k buyers agent commission, then the buyer can borrow based on an amount $10k lower and must pay the $10k out of pocket.  

As rates have decreased you can see an uptick in seller financed notes.

Unfortunately there has been a significant increase in rental supply in those markets and rents have decreased materially from the time ODC acquired the properties. 

It can certainly supplement and even decrease the length of your W2 employment making retirement attainable at an earlier age but very difficult to replace.

At that point he would basically get his investment back that he originally put in, in trade for his monthly cash flow would decrease to pay back his 25% of the equity loan.

I plan to decrease from there as the dates get closer, if I'm not getting bookings.

As a freelancer, it’s often still transactional or volume-driven.What I’m exploring is a model where that same skillset is applied exclusively to one investor or a very small number of partners, with underwriting standards, buy box, and incentives tied directly to that investor’s long-term performance, not deal count or speed.In other words, same muscles, different alignment.Totally agree with you though: if someone is good at this, they should make good money.