If your income exceeds $150,000, your ability to deduct passive losses from rental properties is limited, and any disallowed losses carry forward to future years under the passive activity loss rules.Yes, the deductions can accumulate and roll over year after year.

One thing to keep in mind, most lenders will require that you have owned a property for 12 months, and have two active trade lines on your credit for 2 years or more.

Get your license, do the prospecting activities, and find the buyers.

Rarely do I come across a LLC that is treated correctly (without comingling of funds, documenting the minutes of the required board meetings, and often paying the franchise taxes to keep the LLC active). 

.- Privvy is easier for seeing investor activity in the area and seeing the before/after of flips (how much they bought and sold it for)As an investor, I presume that your versions don't give you access to MLS sale price data? 

If you do decide to proceed into investing, this will open to a realm of achieving financial freedom and slowly accumulate your rental portfolio, so that you can replace your active tech income from your rental income.

My goal was to be a little active to make a higher return and to do that I needed to be in the same neighborhood where I live.

Hey @Austin Wolff - You bring up some good points about knowing the house better than anyone when you build new if you are actively involved and onsite regularly, but I'd get behind @Jay Hinrichs, in the sense that the numbers don't always allow you to build new.Here in Chicago, new developments are super pricey, and even the BEST DEVELOPERS HAVE SLIM MARGINS. 

Given the recent pickup in activity, I thought this would be a good time to re-hash the agencies' small balance multifamily loan programs for future reference. 

I don't even want to circle back with the lawyer I originally engaged as I was not impressed with his support or follow up.