Put reduce current year taxes as an option.Lots of people miss the forest for the trees and do it for that purpose.My answer for top 2is:Store of valuePrice appreciation

Although HELOC'S are available on 2-4 unit investment property homes, reduced Max LTV's, rates and amortizations can make $250k+ equity lines even more restrictive. 

Or the LLC continues and your capital account in the LLC is reduced by the distribution and switched to you at it's basis - either way, not taxable.A drop and swap is not any more complicated and takes about 10 minutes for a title company to do. 

If you haven't been charging late fees, make sure you start, because that will help reduce the amount of times they're late on rent. 

If you want more affordability, CUT programs, CUT tax's, REDUCE centralization. 

Even though it’s sold as-is ..bank will not repair anything .. but use the water issue to convince them to reduce the price .

The city recently reduced the number of allowed bookings in a calendar year to I believe 20.

So In SIMPLE terms; you are stating that REGARDLESS of whether the FULL $60K in funds paid to the Seller for the OPTION to buy the home at $300K is APPLIED towards that $300K "Strike Price" reducing the remaining amount due to them to $240K OR if only $30K of the $60K in funds paid to the Seller is APPLIED reducing the the remaining amount due to them to $270K - the Tax Treatment for THEM (the seller) is the SAME on the $60K paid for the OPTION ?

Property managers fundamentally do two things: manage your asset (lease, maintain, accounting, anticipate) and reduce your liability. 2.

You can reduce this risk by purchasing materials and then paying the contractor in increments.