Your trying to time the market, hmmm.............Good luck It's no joke, and it's not a lot of analyzing, perhaps you haven't seen my post 'I made LA/Ventura & SF/Bay Area market analysis & sales comps tools you can use' (seems my original post photos are missing, but see the post replies for a thorough run-through)You, me, everyone can instantly generate these charts with my software tool RUNCOMPS, among other things:All I did was save a few of the charts generated by the Sales Data radio button at the bottom, and then put them in Google Slides to come up with all this in <15 min.Were you thinking I sat there, manually scraped this data, cleaned & calculated on the data, then manually made charts for every zip code, and all that?

If that's right, a house hack of any sort is gonna be really tough financially (I grew up in Ventura County).

Although I ACED it, good GOD I hated accounting and oh so happy that CPAs still love it.But omg, running books one way for accural and another for cash would send me catatonic.

Just a few  years ago you had a different response to this, so I guess you "erroneously" gave incorrect info:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/58918-reporting-sale-of-flips-to-irsAlso I recently was at a CE and both well respected teachers (Hoven & Roberson) discussed briefly this topic and if your not deemed to be in the trade or business of flipping houses, etc...no self employment tax would be paid and the sale would be appropriate to be reported on schedule D (it was about a 10min discussion but that was the jist of it).

@Rose Ventura  I would like to network with you.

I am a local investor in Ventura County.

If you’re open to it I’d like to bend your ear about a few deals I’m working on in Ventura and LA county.

My go-to for NH is Paul English at Ace Tidle in Manchester, NH.....

The city of St Pete is essentially a no go unless you get the ace in the hole property that is zoned hotel or resort. 

Yes, in fact I aced the stats course at Penn State and was hired by the largest market research company in the world to cover stats.