If you do the rental you lose the $500,000 avoidance at the end of 5 years unless you’re military.I believe it’s worth it for a few reasons.A) High W2 income earner with no flexibility for tax deferralsB) Have a long term goal to own a few income producing properties in the Chad Carson small but mighty mindsetC) Plan to hold property for long term.

Whatever software you use, should be able to produce a balance sheet and income statement.

Base your purchase price solely on the market itself, not off the revenue numbers the home has produced previously.

With the preferred financing and not extremely hands off (my son and his team were going to act as PM and do a lot of work), we were only projecting $30k profit).You will be challenged to find flips that produce a good return on the mls.  

@Elizabeth Wilson The short answer is no - all else being equal, the platform you use to produce the site doesn't matter.

Your post discussed how much the properties may be wortth & how much cash may be required for deferred maintenance, but you do not mention how much net cash flow the properties produce. 

The idea was to create diversification across many wells and reduce the risk of significant losses if a single deep well failed to produce oil.For this fund, G2 reportedly raised approximately $22 million from around 270 investors.

Thank you, RTR, for providing excellent and valuable services from start to finish, making it easy for out-of-state investors to own income-producing rental properties.”Forget folks swimming naked when the tide gets pulled, the sharks now need to put on blast. 

I was able to produce a ~$40K write-off, which translated to some nice tax savings.

I'm open to any market if it can produce consistent cashflow.