It's very close to downtown and there is tremendous growth happening right now which is attributing to the growth in all the neighborhoods around it. 

I think one issue is the price I'm offering is a commercial valuation where as most sellers seem to want a retail price.My workflow has been a bit different from yours though it's relatively similar:Decide investing area - home market, easy decisionObtain list of all multifamily properties in target counties via GIS data pull and/or contacting the tax assessors office and asking for the listFilter list with Excel magic to take out all properties owned by companies, recently sold, and other attributes that disqualify them from my criteriaConsolidate list and google map/streetview each property - type notes in an excel field for future reference.

@Scott Trench is absolutely right to attribute rising college costs to too-easy credit and too-easy credit to the fact that loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

You just have to pick your Buy and resale attributes.

and I bought a replacement property of 250K.then there's 50K left that will be taxed for capital gain. and similar to your example, if this 50K is attributed to property B, then there will be no capital gain becasue there's no capital gain on property B. if it's attributed to property A then will be some capital gain.

It is certainly attributing to our low inventory here making it super competitive with them being active here 

The Zone's association attributed the growth to the above-average performance of Latin American economies

So assuming you financed the property with a 65%/35% non-recourse loan you'll only owe tax on the proportion of the income attributable to the loan.

I have been lucky though, in that I have a few contacts with deeper pockets.Now the problem: I pitch the property (the numbers support my words), and have my team in place, but despite their interest, potential investors aren't moving fast enough and the properties are selling, so I miss out.So my question to either those who have been successful obtaining private money or those private lenders who are active lenders - What piece of your pitch do you attribute to closing the deal (or agreeng to lend)? 

If you report a profit AFTER depreciation on a given activity you have by calculation no passive losses attributable to that activity that can end up being suspended, and at least temporarily useless to you.If you report profit AFTER depreciation you have tax free (or at a minimum tax deferred) pre principal pay off cash flow at least equal to the depreciation reported on that activity.No suspended losses and lots of tax advantaged cash to do with as you choose (e.g., pay off debt, fund other investments with pre tax dollars, spend personally, etc.).There is only one catch you have to apply the effort, skill and patience required to select economically sound properties (i.e., ones that at a minimum generate profits AFTER depreciation).