I'm also doing a rehab in East Austin and will be having a meetup here soon.

There are a lot of good ones out there and I believe the most important part of reading them is opening your mind to new ways of thinking and determining what type of investor you will be.  Have

Now that we will be having a new president soon, i came across an article from marketwatch about the new real estate taxes.https://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-biden-tax-proposals-that-will-sail-through-a-democratic-controlled-senate-and-how-to-prepare-for-them-11609958777?

@Ola DantisWhile I get the west coast joke, I’d say without mincing a word that it is every realtors wet dream (in Austin and in most tier 2 cities in the country) that their local market behaves like how west coast markets have behaved in the last 10 years.

I also had to explicitly add "No ATVs, no 4 wheelers" etc to the listing and also a sentence along the lines of "This is a quiet and respectful community and we expect guests to behave accordingly."

It's one thing when an applicant says they have a pet - you can check out how well-behaved it is and how well the owners have trained that pet (and vice versa with respect to training of owners by the pet) before accepting them.

No matter what you do or say, no matter how you behave, there are some tenants who think it's their life's duty to screw you over.

At the end of the day, unless we keep it as a long term rental after he graduates, we will have gotten 3 years of free housing.The cost would be having our down payment locked up until the house is sold to get it back which I don't feel will be a problem. 

Your biggest expense is going to be having a roof over your head.

I suppose an alternative would be having someone install a vent.