Waiting for rates to drop before refinancing mitigates the risk of locking in a high-cost loan and significantly reduces the pressure on cash flow​.Upcoming Opportunities: Many investors who bought aggressively during the 2020-2022 period, especially those with five-year fixed-rate loans, may face challenges when their rates become variable around 2026-2027.

Good property management can mitigate some risks and handle tenant issues more effectively.Ultimately, some investors are drawn to these markets because they see the unique long-term benefits as outweighing the challenges.

This allows you to build equity while mitigating the risk of concentrating all your resources into one property.

(Most notably, they've gotten REPS aggregation all mixed up in the past.)Based on the regs seems that:- 1245 ordinary income recapture applies to some forms of property that qualify as "real estate" for 1031 exchange purposes- 1245 recapture on such "real estate" overrides 1031 deferral such that 1245 depreciation is recaptured to the extent there's a trade down in 1245 property in the exchange@Heidi Kenefick There are many additional mitigating considerations worth discussing in conjunction a real estate tax accountant.    

Note: I personally don't want to pursue pre-foreclosures, it's tricky and too easy to run afoul of Loss Mitigation laws in MD. 

I have one right now that loss mitigation last week said it looked like a good offer and so it was handed over to their negotiator.

I have a property that went under contract in Whittier, North Carolina right before Helene hit. The area wasn’t heavily affected... but a tree on the property was uprooted and unfortunately knocked down part of the ho...

Doing it this way can help mitigate the risks of investor loss to the syndicators you raise money for. 

Just don't know what kind of contractor I should be looking for, drywall/ceiling repair or I need to call water mitigation contractor first to have the ceiling dried first

The moving of them mitigated damages.