@William Taylor so many options...Use your RE knowledge to: WholesaleFind rental deals to sell to investors locally or here on BPStart leveraging your personal contacts to build your sales businessFind a motivated seller willing to do seller financing:- Move in worst room or basement, rent out all the other rooms for max cashflow- You could even live in the basement and STR the rest of the house

If I get the situation correctly, youre wanting to exit retirement and pull cash out of your home to use to flip a property in FL to generate income to live off of.

Looking for various tax strategies to reduce the reality that a large RV or boat is a grossly depreciating assetI would not have a loan, so claiming it as a primary or secondary residence and claiming the mortgage deduction is not applicable.I sold my primary residence and I have several rental properties which I use as I'm fixing them up.What I'm pondering is living aboard and working aboard developing a new product, while traveling.  

If you qualify for both (you've lived in the property long enough and it is used for investment when you sell it) then you get to take both.

I was forced to buy my first house because my roommate moved out and I couldn't afford to live alone.

Guys - I was just quoted $5000 for the Trust package (Trust, Will, Living Will, and Power of Attorney), plus $1660 per LLC, which includes one holding company in WY and however many other LLC’s you want to start.

@Heather Bailey while I live in my duplex, I have a standard Hazard insurance policy and I also carry an additional 500k umbrella policy (optional); both policies cover the entire building, but there's no separating it. 

We have another park with a free space rent manager and as we have raised the rents he continues to live there for free. 

There are some exceptions, but the HOA dues normally kill your returns and there are all kinds of other issues having tenants living close together. 

I won't be able to make the cottage legal rental without living in the primary home myself.