I know they could have been pulling the wool over my eyes, but it was only 3 days and I wasn't going to make a stressful situation worse.

Since REPS is determined on a joint return basis, her active involvement and the combined hours can qualify you to offset your 2024 W-2 income with real estate losses, including losses from cost segregation and bonus depreciation on your remaining rentals.

A hybrid approach involves buying early and renting out units, then moving into one.

You might feel like the effort doesn't justify the cost, but she was involved on the initial showing and that's what demonstrates the agency between you two. 

We’re getting a fresh set of eyes in the property.  

So yes, to answer your question, I’m well prepared for whatever I get myself involved in.

When making offer based on ARV, is it good practice to have future cash refi lender get involved as early as possible (have their appraiser connected?)

Especially because I have my eye on a few more just like this one! 

I know, I know, the *** b4 the cart (insert eye rolling emoji here).The next day we heard that tropical storm Michael (2018) was getting more serious but was still just a cat 3 and heading toward the Florida Panhandle.

That definitely helps explain things, but too messy for me to get involved personally.