I held them to maturity, and they were paid off from refi's...

My college degree was in physics and chemistry, but i did have a minor in economics, I understand the value of a dollar, and I can do my own taxes, lol.I enjoy playing poker in my spare time, and was semipro for a little while (semipro = didn't get rich) and still belong to a private group of many close friends and high stakes players.

If it is privately held (or the bank actually keeps the loan on their own books, which is rare in the overall scheme of things), they can do whatever you can negotiate with them.

And since we are not talking about long-term capital gains (property held less than 12 months) then rehab expenses that I would normally think of as being capitalized (like adding a new bathroom) are not really capitallized (and depreciated) because of the short-term nature of this type of transaction.

I was under the impression that the Social Network was new for 2008 and I wasn't sure if local meetings would be held.

Then you can be held liable with treble damages for seizing the tenants' deposit without due care.

We didn't have a sherriff on hand and clearly the only things we actually left on the curb were things that only the tenant would value such as his clothing and personal items. he actually showed up an hour after we left and gathered all of the bags from out front. he actually called right then asking about his belongings and storage fees if I held them and such.

Neither of us will have any "taxable" cashflow with which to approach mortgage brokers with, as any money I've made the past 3 years has been from poker (non-taxable, treated as a windfall in Canada).

Essentially your lending yourself money from the bank and using that same amount of money to be held as collateral with the bank.

Sure, there are lenders out there who will refinance those SFH as investment held.