Overbuilding certain features can lead to diminishing returns, especially if they don’t resonate with local buyers.

In return he will place the down payment, closing costs and IO payments during the HML.If the property is initially purchased by one LLC (Ours) and there is an active loan on the property, is it possible to register half of the property under the name of the investor's LLC as part of our model?

If there is an opportunity out there that you believe will provide you with better returns than what the stock market then yes buy real estate.

If we do a Self Storage development we expect a 400% COC return.  

So I offered to pay for the flight, if they returned a clean and empty house.

Complexity of return (many things such as # of states, # of properties, 1031 exchanges, etc)2.

I built this budget template based on my research but am only seeing bad investment returns / don't really know what I'm doing and would appreciate any feedback you all have to offer.

There are no tax deductions for such gifts, however you have a $15k per recipient annual gift limit that avoids the chore of filing a gift tax return.

.- Plan: postcard-size tax returns.

• Investing in High-Cost Markets: The Bay Area is an expensive market, but we’re open to exploring out-of-state opportunities if they provide better returns.