Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

I think the folks trying to do Airbnb and short term leasing in Cleveland's many Section 8 neighborhoods are out of their minds.

.- If you hold a rental until death, you can pass it on with a stepped-up cost basis, limiting captial gains if then sold (limited by inheritance tax limitations).Too many newbies on this site trying to replace their day job income via "passive" real estate investing w/o digging deep enough to understand how it really works.

Is it their credit score, their track record with loans, or the investment they’re trying to fund?

If you are using RE investing to try to avoid going to school, your intentions are not in the correct place.

I am also trying to get my investment back so I can pay my Kids college Fee.

You could also try looking up money judgements filed against local businesses at the magistrate level and target them with direct mail or driving for dollars. 

Just trying to sort out an assumption so I can plug it into the model I build and calc post-construction LTV and sale assumptions.

But normally, I haven't seen a single operator try to do multiple SFHs as much as just owning a MFH.

I won't honor their cr@p with a link.In this generic post, I will try to give you a basic overview of the most common EOY tax strategies, obviously without an actual discussion of each one.