But the rental too does have to meet the "active conduct of a trade or business" threshold, which does mean you wouldn't qualify to use section 179 if you have a rental that is managed entirely by someone else and you aren't at least overseeing it and making decisions about the management of it.I mostly disagree with the reply suggesting that you need to have an LLC to take the section 179 deduction. 

I had a client use one for their house hack in salt lake city area and it worked out well!

Do you self-manage?

House have good layout, good area, great schools, price point was fair for that area.

Applying that to RE investing, most would agree your first FHA loan should be a multi-unit house hack.

I still have one house with some existing K&T.

Management treats line employees quite poorly and lying is just part of the job.

If you are newer I'd suggest a house hack unless you can rinse/repeat this process again. 

For our second STR, we are currently researching Sherman, potentially / ideally, a less expensive duplex that we could rennovate and self manage from Dallas with workers coming to the area in mind. 

I currently work remotely as a Manufacturing and Quality Manager for an AI infrastructure company based out of the Bay Area.