Our season is too short to justify a pool but if I owned property in the south I look into these partial inground pools: https://www.poolandspadepot.co...

Instead, You get to use the tax for your own benefit and purchase better property/ properties.

These two demographics are projected to be long term renters which will help keep vacancy rates low for years to come.In recent years, Pittsburgh has become a tech hub in its own right, attempting to create a dynamic job market similar to Silicon Valley.

The 2/5 year still applies no matter how long you have owned the house.

You don’t have to figure that out on your own.

If I gave you a list of 100 deals on a sheet of paper with just a few basic pieces of information you could apply the 1% rule and eliminate the vast majority of them and then only focus on a small number to consider evaluating further.

Some of the properties I own were at one time not great cash flow properties.

OwnerRez, which i use, has their own product for guest damage.

With $150k here you’re just a little tight on budget but can make it happen if you self-manage and do your own furnishing and design.  

As noted, if your options are Reg D, private offering vs fully registered public offering, even if you are talking Pink Sheet (OTC) stocks, you have public filing costs, annual audit requirements, and likely more on-going expenses that have to be covered by the property(s) owned by the offering.