Let me explain to you why I chose CA as well as my goals and strategy.For starters, I'm active duty military, and this has given me access to a VA home loan which gives me better leverage to easily purchase a property with zero down.

But classifying your depreciation (either the leftover annual depreciation after taking bonus depreciation, or the regular amount of depreciation if you didn't take bonus depreciation) can be taken as an active deduction against your W2 income for as long as you materially participate in the property.Disclaimer: I'm not a tax professional so not financial advice. 

I plan to be as active here as I can as I learn and grow my business moving forward. 

You also have to actively pursue the leads on FF - it's fairly rare that they come to you directly. 

These have the highest rent to price ratio and have minimal cap ex since they are new.Another option would be to buy a short term rental, but that is going to be more expensive and is more active than long term rentals.

Totally happy to meet up if you're in Tokyo to discuss REI.Finally, i'll ping a few others I believe are active/interested in Japan properties and generally based here in Japan (sorry guys)

Perhaps what you might consider doing before investing the amount being asked is decide if you want or can assemble a similar list of professionals to help with your activities!

I would suggest clicking on someone who has the most amount of posts or reviews that way you know they are active

I still have no deals under my belt but I did get experience seeing first hand the "ins and outs" of deal structures working under an active investor. 

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