This will correct over time as more get burned, but until then, spend responsibly. 2) Do not listen to any advice recommending that you enter into a THIRTY YEAR agreement with a bank where you pay them a monthly payment in exchange for primary residence shelter where the only way you can meet the obligations for such a contract over the lifetime of such contract is that you househack, renting out your bedrooms to likely...strangers...until you are dang near Medicare eligible.

1) you can’t afford to “gift” these strangers $4,000 year. 2) if rent caps kick in you wil be giving them $4,000/year for life.

This is all pretty basic stuff, that you can read about here on BP if you spend a bit of time looking.So, tough question for you - how are you going to succeed at RE investing, if you keep putting in little to no effort on research and just ask strangers for help?

Anything short of that is just them paying full taxes like they didn’t do a 1031 and sold to a stranger.

I'm even hesitant to give you the web address I'm about to give you, because if you haven't looked for it and found it already before coming to the Bigger Pockets forums to ask strangers for help, you're way, way behind the eight ball.

That's a lot to ask of a complete stranger!

Why are the strangers already living there more important than the strangers that want to rent the property after it’s already fixed up?

Get to know people, build relationships, and determine if they are the real deal or a pretender.Asking for investing advice from strangers can be a lot like online dating: 

Depending on the results of the election and evn the time leading up to it, we could see Interest rates drop, and/or home values rise...I'm not saying for sure, but I've seen stranger things for sure.Doing anything now just leaves you with no good options....and I don't believe in putting off the inevitable, but there may be other options that arise as a few more months go by.

I own multiple properties in the Caribbean and not a stranger to foreign deals and owning foreign assets.