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We called them out on it and asked for tax returns.

I looked into this as well since I'm getting terribly bent over on my w-2 taxes. 

If you can rent it for enough to cover the principal, interest, taxes and insurance and still put money in your pocket, plus cash flow on the property you're purchasing, that would be ideal.

Baselane has the added advantage of synching with your Schedule E you'll use at tax time to file your taxes.

A HYSA pays 4.5-5%(before rates went down) pre-tax, 3% net tax if you're a high earner. 

(It doesn’t pay its own taxes.

Another common practice for nationally sparse datasets such as tax data is aggregation.

Property taxes are also insane.

Knows real estate tax write-offs and how I can best apply them!