The contribution of your exchange property into an entity at his point in time will not jeopardize your 1031 Exchange transaction since you have such a long holding period (seasoning). 

The article has some great graphs that are informative as they illustrate the housing price trends of 7 major metropolitan areas in the US, including the San Francisco Bay Area over a 20+ year period.

HMM never heard of that regarding criminals  https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/20...Using CA as an example:- not allowed to place a blanket ban based on criminal record- are not allowed to access certain forms of criminal records (arrests, post-trial diversions, sealed expunged records)- you are technically allowed to access conviction data and use it, but your interpretation of that data must comport perfectly with how CA wants you to interpret it (must have direct bearing, must have been recent enough etc)- even if you follow all of this perfectly, accessing the criminal records must not "have a discriminatory effect" so if certain special people are impacted you are still looking at liability.As a result of this legal minefield many just decide to forget looking at criminal or to find some other criteria.

We are seeing more vacancies, for longer periods of time, and for lower rents.Personally, I am very bullish on the Cape Coral market because the prices are lower than they have been in 3 -4 years.

After the redemption period expired I quieted title against everyone including the SBA, so I owned the house free and clear.

The Attorney review period was done 2 days ago. 2.

Hi,as far i was aware this whole time when you owner occupy your duplex one side and rent the other for 2yrs and you sell it within 5yr period there is no capitol gains tax.

Fannie/Freddie will allow you to have UP to 10 personally guaranteed loans residential loans period.

This regulation only ask about another 6 months  Holding period is 18 months, as I recall.

Hi Ian,I might do that deal if I also felt that the rental amount was projected to go up (like in a high growth market) or if appreciation looked to be promising and I wanted to exit the investment in a short period of time but in general, by doing the deal with only a 6% profit, the margins are slim to make it worth it in the short term at least.~ Lindsey