That's a little easier.Go to Redfin, find 3 properties that had a short DOM that sold recently that are comps in your market, look at the level of finish and design layout and make yours look like that. 

Ive got a small upper kitchen i've been remodeling after 15+ year tenants I inherited (smokers) left.

Journal entry can be found in the "+" sign in the upper right hand corner, then under the "Other" group.

You can even use an FHA 203(k) to buy a fixer-upper and finance the repairs in the purchae mortgage.Otherwise, you CAN buy a property on a land contract with an existing mortgage.

Learning some taxes on your own will always help, but understanding it at our level takes years.In your second example, he is correct.

Compared to the recent pricing peak in May 2022, single-family home prices in Austin are down approximately 14%.For some broader context, here’s a chart of the median sales price of a single-family home in Austin over the past 10 years:As you can see, pricing in Austin is still substantially above pre-pandemic levels.

High levels of crime make de jure property rights irrelevant and destroy property values.

You would have to seriously level up if you want to get out of the trap that bad operators have set with the pricing wars just to cover their expenses.

It doesn’t take major skills other than know how to manage from the 10k ft level.

And the apartment is an upper that's definitely tough to move into, so the furniture transfer does have some benefits (saves a lot of banging around/removing of doors from hinges/etc.).