Beach town alternative to Malibu.

Houston, with its mix of affordability, career possibilities, and diverse tenants, may be a viable alternative within your budget.

Truly self-directed Solo 401k plan allows you to invest in alternative assets, such as real estate.

You got free advice with no alternative motive from people on here. 

A cost segregation study breaks the property into smaller pieces based on useful lifespan and shows what can be taken on an alternate depreciation schedule.

Alternatively, you can use the fair market value of the home at the time of conversion"Keep in mind, you will probably want to talk to a tax professional to go over all the consequences. 

@Kyle Steiner Potentially you can alternate buying one property on you and your wife's name.  

That may be an alternative option for me, it isn't an immediately turn around to try and get my money back but maybe in 12 months.

Wondering how other investors of medium to large portfolio are dealing with this or are there any alternatives to manage increasing cost of maintenance?

Although there are many variations, a cap rate is often calculated as the ratio between the net operating income produced by an asset and the original capital cost (the price paid to buy the asset) or alternatively its current market value.When we are talking about CAP rate in this scenario, obviously we are talking about initial acquisition cost.If I have two properties, identical in every way.