I go with the natural wood unless there is already uneven discoloration in which case I stain darker to hide the issue.As for finding reliable wood flooring guy, ask around to other investors.

My concern is the self-dealing nature of your strategy. 

The answer will come naturally to YOU as there is no right or wrong answer. 

Interesting strategy, and in spite of my debt-averse nature I am simply curious about how they make it work.No cash flow, or very little.Let's say no maintenance at first and self-managers get to keep the management fee, leaving $150/month ($1,800/year) profit on a $50,000 asset.

This is just the nature of the people. 

We have a few properties that fall into this.For tax purposes multifamily is considered residential, even though they are technically 'commercial' in nature, and considered so for financing the property anything over 4-units. 100% bonus can apply to both commercial and residential, whereas section 179  deductions are only for commercial.

This allows the client to directly administer actual investments made with the plan, rather than rely on the custodian to do the processing.This Checkbook IRA LLC structure does provide an advantage to investors who will have multiple transactions or investment types that generate a lot of transactions or are time-sensitive in nature. 

It will likely be some time before fully closing our business, but shutting off to new customers and letting natural attrition run its course, I'll be transitioning to full time RE over the next two years. 

Hello Investors, Does anyone have a good source for a company or person to hire that can help manage incoming leads, such as checking for motivation, scheduling appointments and things of this nature, 1 first point of contact after a lead comes in from direct mail, website, or cold calling company who has generated a lead?

I think there is a price break somewhere that divides the tenant pools; oddly enough, try raising the rent just a bit to pull it over a line (for instance, from $795 to $825) to see if that changes the nature of interested renters.And the phone number isn't my personal cell #, it's a Google voice number that will play a message, accept texts, and forward all texts and calls to my email.