When the market swings the opposite direction, you'll be ahead of the game.

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I’ve been searching for affordable alternatives that can still automate transactions without pushing us back to Excel.

Your property management background will give you a head start.

After that, all rental losses are blocked and pushed into future years.

If you buy in at a good cost basis with solid fundamentals, you're going to come out ahead in the long term.

You walk away slightly ahead with the rents collected, 2nd lender loses at least $50k of his $95k in selling costs, and other expenses.

I am in the process of screening a potential tenant, he told me he had a felony from 15 years, he offered to explain but I didn't wanna push unless necessary. 

I would say this to make sure you are planning your financials ahead of time to keep your options open and help you be more flexible when working on deals.

To understand how they pushed their numbers so much into their favor, we have to actually look at their numbers.