I have a guy who has been here since July, but I renew his short term stay for two weeks at a time, every two weeks.

I've worked with some Canadians buying  here in Ohio.Indeed, rather than selling your stocks to fund investments (and lose out on any potential price appreciation and dividend payments, as well as incurring capital gains taxes), a nice alternative is to borrow against some percentage of the holdings.You would start with the brokerage where you hold the stocks and see what their loan program looks like for the account you hold. 

Quote from @Paul LaValley: I live in Tucson and know Tucson really really well so I want to start here and then jump up to include Phoenix area. 

I’m budgeting 45 to 50k on the renovation as it may need a few incidentals here and there. 

10k Course, Sub 2 an inner city boarding house, Cost Seg, Cook Islands Trust This right here ^^^ the roadmap to success.

I'd be happy to give you some insight on the market here and get you some good contacts out here to start building a team.

Here’s my situation.I currently live in upstate New York but am looking to move to Texas.

I don't know about the homestead exemption you'd have to ask a CPA on here.

Good thread here because I have run into this issue. 

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