Lastly, running an MTR is partially hospitality (like STR), but it is also a sales position (like all commerce).

I have a few Airbnb properties for sale with creative financing in San Antonio, I'll shoot them your way just in case. 

I dont know the market in Las Craces.....but in the DC area, we definitely have a seasonal adjustment on sales, and if the property was here, it would have been listed at the worst possible time. 

Purchase price: $30,000 Cash invested: $80,000 Sale price: $135,000 First rehab.

Purchase price: $145,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $180,000 2017, I tackled my first fix-and-flip—a 2004 double-wide mobile home on over an acre that needed a complete transformation.

There are accountants who say that applies to the opportunity to discount sale and/or basis shift to further lower the tax bill.  

Again, see question #1.Selling as-is means selling it cheap, no hassle, quick sale.

He’d have to rent it out for a year before he could 1031 the sale tax free.  

By the time a property is formally put up for sale in a town that size the locals have know it was going to be sold and had their chance at it.

Buying an out of state rental property from a realtor, wholesaler or off facebook or zillow etc as opposed to from an operation or turnkey provider who has an active, substancial, and effective boots on the ground team or teams to support you after you close on the sale.