I believe that self-managing your property and maintaining detailed records is the only true way to demonstrate your material participation and safeguard your tax savings.

Happy to assist

The buyers need (not request) a full 5%-6% seller assist and become complete menaces and eat into your margins with lengthy repair addendums following inspections. 

Now enjoying "retirement" he loves to assist other new and seasoned investors down the path of financial independence through real estate investing.The Thursday meetup is quite similar and consists of several local investors who can attend when they are free. 

Understand true costs to maintain a home2.

I want to understand all fee structures to assist in the income reporting analysis.

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The heavy cleaning and repair costs after longer stays are definitely pain points but I've seen my clients make it work by screening the tenants more carefully for MTRs, doing bi-monthly checks to catch issues early, and writing clear lease terms about maintaining the property.

FHA ; first time home buyer w 3 % down; sellers offered sellers assistance; How did you add value to the deal?

The home we have now in Lakeland, TN (near Millington) is definitely Class A and there is a large volume of transients that move through the naval base, FEDEX and other like jobs that our neighborhood of 400+ homes hardly ever has ever rental openings, but there are often multiple homes for sale.We think if we can maintain the right type of tenant we will be fine.