Dear BP Family,My wife and I added an apartment in the basement of our residence and have been renting it out for the past year and a half with great luck, but the one complaint we get is the noise from the main floor.

You must buy in the same “tax name” as you sell  if you’re married filing jointly I’m pretty sure you can’t do a 1031 on just “your half”Ps.

West CV is older than east CV and is virtual certainty to  gentrify. 2) Imperial Beach (IB) is cheapest ocean properties in US for hundreds of miles.  

b) If so, does anyone recommend the method of making 2 half payments per month?

I made the mistake of saying I would pay the cleaner time and one half for doing a cleaning on Easter.

Nobody wants to be stuck with a half-built vacation rental castle

There's oddly a lot of This is very true, with this large amount of capital, need to think big like NFL player level.I read financial proforma of class B hotel in Maui, it's pretty darn good, in fact it's perhaps the top ten best performing hotel in US in term of vacancy and RevPAR.STR and stuff like that is more for small investor like us with half to 1 mil buying power, but when it is above 5% you really need to talk to some serious developer/realtor in the island and understand the business.If I have that size of capital I would import contractor from California to finish my project in Kukio LOL Currently in kona there're only few new construction that can still being built, I guess it is selling for 1.5mil and above.

help ideals. the property is about 3000 soft the front side is currently done the back half is still a work in progress 

Revenue - expenses = profitYou would have to divide the expenses in half because you will be living on one side. 

As for neighborhoods, we are looking to invest within a few miles of the major new developments.