After 25 years of co-living have now graduated to one side of a duplex.

my condolences on your recent lost.there are a few ways you can do this, as mentioned above you can take a heloc on your primary residence which will give you a second mortgage, first mortgage payment wont be impacted. you can do cash out refinance which will give you one mortgage and payment. it will pay the old mortgage and give you money in your pocket to pay for the rehab.or you can do a renovation refinance which is similar to cash out refinance but we would contractor involved  as part of the refinancing and they are paid through the loan

The mayor has been hot on out of state investors and poor property managers since his campaign. 

Pays on time?

They offer better economies of scale and tend to be more manageable as you grow your portfolio.

If you're investing in real estate out of your home state don't you have, at minimum, a Realtor, Contractor, Property Manager, Lawyer, etc. in the state where you're looking to create a local presence?

But, they have ZERO liability for the performance of that tenant.Second, 97%+ have no idea on how to screen a tenant, other than income = 3x rent and a credit score.

Trying to pay the least amount of taxes legally possible. 

After collecting tenant pass-throughs for the year, do you pay the property taxes at the end of the year or the beginning of the next year?

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