This is the conundrum that every investor is in and the answer is that it's an issue.The way to work around it is to prepare your taxes for a couple of years without the "optional" items that you can declare. 

But without a couple folks to help evaluate a deal, it is incredibly easy to wind up with a property that doesn't break-even.We read about successes on here, but not often about the deals that DIDN'T work out. 

My husband and I both come from Real Estate savvy families, I made a comment a couple years back about purchasing a rental property for passive income and my husband told me not to get ahead of myself.

Would be good for an older single or couple.

He said there might be a couple spots where water could come in so for the sake of my property maybe I should get it done.

The upstairs unit is currently occupied by a contractor/friend of mine who has agreed to fix the place up on his own (me paying for materials) if he could have a break in the rent (charging a couple hundred under market).

I'm looking for a good all-around handyman in Indianapolis that can help me do some light rehab of a couple of units in my apartment on E.

I actually attended the last meeting and really enjoyed it.

Even if you do have a low CTR rate cause you are in these lower positions, the idea is the more auctions you show up on the more chances you have of getting clicks and spending that full budget.Contrary to popular belief, which is just showing up #1 for every keyword, statistically speaking if you only show a couple of times in those high positions you end up getting 1 click and lets say you have a 4% conversation rate your going to have to get a lot of those really expensive clicks in order to get a conversion but if your bidding at a fraction of the rate your going to get a lot more traffic.

I'll update again in a couple weeks...In the mean time, I'm still looking for financing.