You're navigating a unique hybrid opportunity with this VA assumption + gap financing model, so let's walk through the best options to minimize your out-of-pocket (OOP) while protecting long-term upside.Strategy: Blend of Negotiation, Creative Financing & Leverage1.

Quote from @Matthew Schumacher: Absolutely love this post — solid overview of strategies that can really move the needle when you’re being intentional about growing your real estate portfolio and minimizing taxes.Here are a few other approaches we've seen clients lean into, or that we're actively exploring:Bonus Depreciation + Cost SegregationWhen used together, these two can create some serious tax savings.

Making millions a year and often paying $0 in taxes.Short Term Rentals supercharge this:RE pros use cost segregation and bonus depreciation combined with leverage to create massive losses with minimal cash.Combined with 1031s and snowballing, you create a business that never pays tax.

Have you considered cutting losses?

We’re based in Los Angeles and open to creative or unconventional strategies as long as they help preserve capital or minimize losses. 

Adjust your questions as needed, and if they check all the boxes, you’ve likely found the right partner.By following this process, you’ll build a team that minimizes your time and risk and maximizes your returns.Let me know if you would like any details for the above.

The idea, which due to my lack of knowledge may have been a shortsight on my part, was to cash flow the property and eventually rehab minimal and flip it eventually.

@Pavan K.In general, real estate losses via operational loss or depreciation deduction can not be used to offset ordinary income (W2) if one’s adjusted gross income is over $150,000. 

The day you see a 6 figure stock market loss in one day you start to value to “stability”. 

But on the off chance that it's not an advertisement, and you're really wondering how to avoid thousands of dollars worth of losses on tenants - screen well, keep rents at or slightly below market rates, maintain and repair your properties promptly as needed, be a responsive landlord, and don't deal in C and below properties and you're probably as close to guaranteed as you can be. "...this post sounds like the beginning of every other advertisement..."