If someone is willing to live in and renovate the 2 of last 5 year capital gains exclusion is a significant consideration.

Almost anyone with a real service animal, would have had it with them at the viewing.On the application next time, have a box that asks if they have an animal that will be living with them-not a pet, but an animal. 

We currently live in CA, but are moving to Illinois in the coming months - so this will be our state of residence soon.

The Property Management company has breached the contract in terms of allowable expenses without owner's approval.

  $36k - $16k = $20k or $1,600 per month net income left to cover all other expenses...same as above.Median household income in the US is over $80k or more than double these two zip codes.

And someone jumping into this as a complete newbie can expect that they have a decent chance of making some expensive newbie mistakes.

Living in the house has definitely slowed progress. 

It’s a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom unit that I’ve been living in for the past two years.

The program was created to give low-income tenants an alternative to living in federal project housing.S8 sets their rental rates to the LOW-END of market averages, if not slightly below.

I have great tenants, because I refuse to buy a property I wouldn’t be willing to live in myself.