Good afternoon, Bigger Pockets, my name is Taben Tucker i served in the army for four years i have a wife and two kids and i currently live in northern Virginia.

Would it be a good idea or having a personal umbrella policy should be good enough?

I get builders risk policies for all my new builds and at least in the markets I built in Charleston SC  and Portland Oregon have never seen the fence and security and like you I would have trusted my broker to mention something like that.. fence and 24 hour security is just not something you do on ONE SFR rehab.. unless its a known high crime area like South side of chicago and now inner city Portland you really need the fencing etc other wise the homeless and druggies will walk off with everything.. when did a bunch of rehab loans in South Jackson MS same thing theft was off the charts and we had houses burn down .. but the dollars were much smaller.I know I have gotten larger policies for my bigger developments and I did pay my lawyer to go through them line by line and at the end of the day they really cant say what is or is not covered.Also you simply would not think of anything in Colusa county as being high crime .

I did not actually see those properties so I don't now good of a deal those were but I did check out a nice house that would easily fetch close to $600,000 in the open market, that sold for $440,000.This is a tendency I have seen already so I am now working in pooling money to have access to the bigger, better deals. 

Which ever home you choose as the main home it will be a tax deduction so it should work out in the long run.Another thing to consider is having two primary homes does not offer a great Schedule E option where you can have the bigger tax shelter. 

Do you need a bigger truck and a trailer, extra insurance storage..can you rent your machine out when your not using it?

I'm going to be honest, it is kind of scary venturing into unfamiliar territory, after 19 years in the home health industry, but being part of Bigger Pockets gives me the confidence necessary to not give up or slow down. 

Make sense about spreading costs out more, and building bigger since you'll always have the costs of the foundation, roof, etc regardless of the size. 

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