For those of you who are researching Blockchain/Bitcoin, I’d recommend trying to ignore all the hype and speculation aspect of it and focus on its properties: digital, scarce, and distributed.  

Once ignored my own rule and, well, let's just say my accountant wasn't thrilled.Have a Clear Exit Strategy: Knowing whether you want to flip, rent, or hold onto the property helps steer your decisions.

People are attempting to - and succeeding at that - ignore and override all kinds of tax rules.

Just ignore the $90K you invested to pay off the HELOC because, I guess, well, you didn't have it, you just spent it on loan payments rather than something else.  

This crude method ignores all the other debt payments tenants have.

Originally posted by Account ClosedYour mom likes SALT lendingYeah, but of course, it's the general ignorance that most people still have about bitcoin (despite, or because of, the media's recent attention to it), that will allow its price to do what it will do!

These GPs have a great interest in keeping their potential LPs (marks) ignorant so they will be protecting those interest mob style (dealing with rats).

Ignore the get just focus on the GIVE, everything else will take care of itself. 

it typically takes a few years just to recover the closing costs. those are the types of things that get sugarcoated / ignored and they shouldn't be.3 separate recent sources show that it is cheaper to rent than buy at high LTV in virtually every market.  

Appreciation would be more key here, but don't buy rentals based on appreciation.If you ignore things, then things will just fester with time and things will turn more against you and STRs in general.