It's not just the taxes, but being able to at-a-glance look at expenses by the month and year, profit and loss calculating automatically, and even cash flow by property and total portfolio by month and year.Thanks for suggesting it!

This reduces your housing payment and helps you build equity. 

Granted once I rent out the unit I leave, after vacancy and everything we would cash flow almost 400(minus heloc as well)All the deals I find.

We also have shorter seasoning periods than most for cash out.  

My focus is shifting from cash flow to equity management as well as our portfolio mix.

In my home market of Florida, our insurance rates have made it much harder to have positive cash flow on a CRE deal.

With the upswing in the country's short-term and mid-term rental markets, a unique opportunity is presenting itself to house hackers during a time when it's harder to cash flow than it was a few years ago.

The more cash on hand the more options.

I paid cash and roughly 25% of retail value. 

. -- Thus, you can expect to get Class C or D tenants, which have a 15-25% probability of defaulting on their lease payments.2) If your PMC is lowering FICO to 550, what are they doing to improve their screening in other areas?