Hey Sam...As far as negotiating goes... check out Chester Karass, Effective Negotiating.

@Sam A. it all comes down to the numbers.

Sama,I am an investor and agent in the St.

I'm looking at a property near Fort Sam a couple blocks north of I-35.

I get to access those funds and immediately redeploy them, without giving Uncle Sam a cut.The better investments one is both qualitative and quantitative.

BUT ... shoot, we're going to pay Uncle Sam a quarter mil more or less!

  $20K for a week of rental is much more than most people would buy, unless their name is Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, Sam Walton and the like.I was hunting quail many years ago and ran into a hunting party with Sam. A

@Sama Pa I would look for a market that was doing well pre-Covid and has continued to thrive during Covid. 

Lenders will only let you go up so high on the loan to value.All of the tax deferred capital gains, depreciation, etc. you just keep exchanging or use up the depreciation schedule and when you pass away your heirs inherit the property in a stepped up basis at the new value and all of that back money owed is wiped out.It's a way of giving Uncle Sam  a parting gift.   

-Geoffrey Serdar (The phonetic pronunciation of my name is JAh`free SIR-Dar)I am also a member of the Minneapolis Club, Life Member of Minneapolis Lodge #19, attended Trinity School @ River Ridge,I have a funny immigrant family, and I appreciate that I was born in 'Merica 🇺🇸