I had a W2 I wanted to leave and thought that owning 30 rental properties would be enough to retire from corporate life.

If they leave it to them in their will all the taxes go away.

I have already used 12.5k for consolidation leaving me with only the difference.

Sometimes it might be better to leave some money in the deal to get a better cash flow and provide a little more of a safety net.I hope that helps.

They will likely also need to close any access points to satisfy city inspectors that the now capped chimney cannot be used to "vent" anything in the future.You will likely want a demo team that is much cheaper to do the actual demo and haul off, but you need either the mason or an engineer to stipulate how far down they can/should demo, while leaving enough room for the cap to be effective and maintain any structural rigidity into the future to not create more issues.Long story longer, I would call more licensed, insured contractors.  

Peter Vekselman himself is a joke and his partner Julia has no idea how real estate works, they sell this software and business model which leaves users in middle of nowhere and then they do not have a refund policy, any program who has no refund policy is basically a scammers group.

Hurricanes are making me leave the state BUT I live and own on the water.

Which to me sounds like leaving the house and forgetting to put your shoes on . . . . 

I would rent out the Nevada property then later on, leave the Bay Area and move into the Nevada home to semi-retire (work on a part-time/contract basis) - there's no state income tax whereas California is taxing all my income, including rental income from my Indianapolis properties.

The only thing that would make this bad is if the vacant unit were rented and not leaving.