Concessions are a great way to make deals better, but not at the cost of losing the deal. 

If something unexpectedly changed in 2025, do you lose the benefits claimed in 2024? 

Even in the beginning of my investment career, when I was losing some money, I still loved every second of it. 

I had this happen a few years ago in Oregon paid 50k or so for sellers prop tax's so they would not lose it.. seller would not show up to closing.. ( although this deal is different seller signed the deed and I dont know why you have it title company should have it and have recorded it and dispersed) but anyway..

I suggest farm properties as So Cal keeps losing farms Hawaii has some of the farmland in the US, maybe world. 

What is the layout and what are you losing by adding in the half bath? 

The homeowner, whom my brother in law purchase the house from, was losing his house and he owed 30,000 on it in Riverside.

I have seen too many people not only getting in trouble with the IRS, but losing their investments to sketchy but appetizing "opportunities" to cut taxes.

I agree that leveraging your primary residence with a HELOC to buy investment properties with tight margins is a great way to lose your house.

They tend to start doing "fire sales" which means dropping prices which causes all of the homes they closed on the previous 12 months or more to lose value based on new discounted comparable sales.That is why you see builder always offering crazy "Builder credits" which in most cases are "ghost" funds.