I should have clarified when I mentioned the housing is for individual veterans.

It is actually just a tool to create the already mentioned accelerated depreciation.

However, as you mentioned, financing through an LLC means commercial loans, and 9% rates are nothing to sneeze at.

Love seeing good things happening in a neighboring city.Curious, you mention converting this to apartments?

As others have mentioned, you may need to have some patience and see where it goes.  

As others mentioned, you're going to have a very hard time getting a loan when you're currently in default on any kind of mortgage, HML or otherwise.

A couple other neighborhoods I like besides the two you mentioned are Washington Park, Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore.I think that area will continue to be gentrified because you have the lakefront as well as CTA trains.Is there any reason you are targeting Chicago instead ofdoubling down in Kansas City?

Would be happy to meet up and discuss your goals in more detail.Glad you said it, I didn't want to come off as being negative@Jackson Harris  the Phoenix area may not be for you with that kind of money yet for all the reasons Scott mentioned. 

Actually, a friend once mentioned a unit in Eugene that had to be re-leased after a nasty storm tore off part of the roof.. it’s gritty, hands-on stuff like that which rounds out your perspective.At the end of the day, you don’t need a flawless blueprint to get started.

As mentioned elsewhere, breakeven on cash flow is not the same as break even for taxes.Let's make some assumptions:Rental income = $1000Mortgage payment = $400 - but $300 is interest and $100 is principalOther expenses (repairs, advertising, utilities, etc) = $600Depreciation = $250The above scenario creates a break even from a cash flow perspective, however the tax scenario looks like this:Rental income minus the mortgage interest (principal is not deductible) minus the other expenses minus depreciation looks like this:1000-300-600-250 = $150 LossIf your income is over $150,000, then you cannot deduct that loss, but you can roll it over to future years.