It’s a smart way to ease your out-of-pocket burden and get your foot in the door.One popular strategy—especially if you're single—is the "rent by the room" approach.

It’s clear: Philadelphia is poised for continued growth and popularity, with a dynamic market that offers a unique blend of affordability, resilience, and upside potential—making it the best Northeast market to invest in over the coming years.Case Study: 5000 Florence Ave, West PhiladelphiaHere's a concrete example of why Philadelphia offers compelling investment opportunities:Current Income & Rents:The property generates approximately $48,000 annually.

It is the most popular software in the industry, and most Tax Preparers are familiar with it, which makes tax season easier.

Other things I noticed:The IRS will assume you took depreciation even if you do not include it on your taxes.Depreciation recapture counts as income, not capital gains.Edit: There is a reason buy, borrow, die is so popular, no deprecation recapture. 

If they are less than 12 months till expiration, I'd roll the dice. 

Rental Property Investor from Jacksonville, FLPREVIOUS POSTWhy I sold Cleveland.If you're a real estate podcast junkie like me, you definitely have noticed the clear shift towards real estate syndication in the multi-family space over the last couple of years especially.As deals became harder to find in single family and smaller multis across much of the desirable markets,the allure of pooling investor funds to acquire larger assets became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.Books that were mostly hurriedly written flooded the market pimping the upsides of this strategy.The argument for was simple and convincing:it is better to own 1% of a large deal than 0% of no deal.Personally,I could not help but notice that the popularity of the idea coincided with the rise of real estate crowdfunding.The likes of Realty Shares and Realty Mogul raised a bajillion dollars practically overnight making it very easy for everyday real estate aficionados to own small bites of a mega deal in rural Tennessee at the click of a mouse.A few of my friends experimented with the crowd-funding route, tossing $5000 into this debt offer and $10,000 into that equity offering.These punts yielded mixed results anecdotally, as an equal number seemed to have great experiences to share as did absolute nightmares.To be fair, no real estate niche is 100% fail-safe or iron clad.Money has been lost in a large single family portfolio as well as a personally purchased medium sized apartment complex.It is also certainly true that in the end, every investor will run out of money to invest in more properties if they decide to go it alone trying to rapidly scale up their portfolio, and real estate is most assuredly a team sport at all levels.

If possible, consider implementing the popular strategy.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not set because I believe it will give me a higher return.

The Anecdote: In 1929, during the height of the bull market, Kennedy was getting his shoes shined when the young boy shining his shoes began offering him stock tips and discussing the market with confidence.The Realization: Kennedy reasoned that if a shoeshine boy had an opinion on stocks, the market had become dangerously popular and saturated with inexperienced investors.The Action: He supposedly decided to sell off his significant stock holdings shortly before the Black Tuesday crash in October 1929, thus preserving his family's fortune and profiting from the subsequent decline.

Interest only has been a popular loan in the past.