Better at first join a team: less money, more experience, but most importantly, practice your scripts.

@Mark Forest if you knew your data, then you'd also know that Detroit is using the US Census Bureau over several of its antiquated & mistakenly applied practices that have not properly recognized Detroit's growth over the last 5-6 years.Not even going to bother copying an article link here for your benefit as your head is buried too deep in the sand for any logical info to reach you.I'm sure you're successful wherever you're investing.

If losses/gain/income are small, from practical purpose, maybe not file.

Best Practice: do not provide variable cost services like internet, water, PG&E, or trash service to residents. 

None of the above works unless you take action and put it into practice.

, I don't have any forms for that state, as I only practice law in Florida.

If the net return of the life insurance is very low and your outside investment is really high, it may takes over 100 years or more but it will catch up.Now for all practical purpose, it would be useless to have to plan on waiting 100 years for the life insurance to give more profit than for the real estate alone as your life insurance contract won't outlive you.

Marginal business practices, bending rules, short cuts... all caught up with him and those (generally) who were not a "quality mentor" or a "quality trainer".

Out of state flipping is sprinting.Get experience hyper-local first (as in you could practically walk to the flip from your current house).

In practice, it makes the tenant view you as weak and so they will come back for more an more until you say "no" to something and then you are the evil, greedy landlord AND as a bonus let's rile up the whole building.