Vinyl plank flooring is a great choice when you are on a budget and want the look of real hardwood.

A final choice would be to rent the primary in a few months, reside in a rental for several years, sell the primary, and purchase another SFH for rental and a SFH residence as a new primary.Is this a viable place to begin investing?

In fact, you’d have no choice but to claim material participation because that is exactly how the regulations read and require. 

Getting financed when ready is no issue.The Market choice, and then the building of the infrastructure that will produce solid opportunity is very, very hard. 

I had it prior but had to make a career choice about 5 years ago when I was working for a dealership because it was too time consuming to keep it open. 

In my experience, section 8 tenants can be a real pain and should be vetted more from a holistic perspective than from a traditional quantitative perspective.

But you don't have to pay the full 5.34% to a traditional agent.

Hello and thank you for this reply - yes, I have been analyzing a few properties - I have found that the main issue for both the traditional long term rental and also short term rental in this area is reliable property management - it is traditionally a cottage country tourist area, but it is becoming more popular for long term residency, and there is an emerging missing middle, because of property prices.

I am fairly confident in my choice of the syndication and just need someone to go over the numbers to confirm my understanding of the exit strategy when time comes

When people don’t have the optionality of another remote work job, they are going to have no choice