The sad truth is most in the BP community believe the horrible deal with favorable seller financing where zero out of pocket is required is a better real estate play than the great deal that requires traditional financing.

So if your use is sporadic, renting may still be the better option.Several different factors play a role in this situation. 

As long as you are willing to play the long game you don't really have a reason to be overly nice or flexible with this tenant.

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $212,000

Cash invested: $67,000

Great starter investment home.
70% ROI

What made you interested in inves...

Hard stop.I agree that Hubspot is the easiest to use and it's free so well worth the no cost to play with that with under 1,000 leads.RESimpli is something you could upgrade to as you get moving.

(I find BP to be the most helpful community on the internet)Cross border investing has immense upside financially and on the tax side as wellTo answer your question, the way your entity is structured plays a pivotal role, especially in the upcoming tax year. 

I actually have been friends with Joel for about 20 years now, we started out playing softball together in Chicago for about 10 years and we ended up working some real estate deals together as I was a realtor at the time. 

The reality is both play a key role in your asset management plan.

We bought Ocean Walk Shoppes out of bankruptcy cash, no lender wanted to to play here cost efficiently, about three years ago.

Lookup UDFI (unrelated debt financed income)  as well as non-recourse loans as both will come into play.