Fannie Mae puts out a great guide that will help you with most of your decisions using a neutral approach.  

Do you feel it is beyond her or his abilities to look at this person's self employed tax returns and write smiley faces in boxes we want to see numbers in, neutral faces in boxes we don't care about, and sad faces in boxes we don't want to see large numbers in, to get him ready to house hunt in January 2017 - IF NEEDED?

If you can't control your emotions having a neutral third party might be best.No legal advice

So if I purchased a cash neutral SFR 5 years ago (and 5 years ago it was still easy to find cash positive SFR at retail in San Diego) it would be cash flowing close to $700/month (assuming fixed rate loan and no refinance to take out the property appreciation. 

By switching from buyers agent to transactional agent, the agent is deciding to give up on their buyers best interest and instead act as a neutral party.

Once you have a contract, you can find a trusty and neutral real estate attorney to draft the seller's financing agreement and carry out the closing process (pay doc stamp fees, taxes, transfer deed etc.).

Kind of a neutral feeling, nothing one way of the other.

I think it helps in neutralizing the impact of the notice.

Arturo Borges So the easiest way is to get a T12 provided by a neutral 3rd party property manager.

It might be a bit hard to cash flow while living in it, but being net neutral isn't bad either especially if the quality of living is in such a nice property!