Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.

If I look a few miles south you are in a richer neighborhood. 

I would think you would go the extra mile and provide them with the trailing financials to help them make an efficient decision in a highly inefficient market.

There's a half-dozen of us (MLOs and operations folks) that do our own thing.

We have a single door rental worth about $320,00 that will be paid off on June 1, a half duplex that is worth 260,00 with a $120,000 mortgage and our primary residence is worth $650,00 and has no mortgage.

a RE portfolio refinanced as many did at 80% or bought with only 20% down.. clearly does not establish a net worth of the entire 20% of equity I will submit that those that use max leverage while they have equity on paper in reality if they were to need to cash out for any reason that net worth is probably half and if then when hit with recapture they have zero cash net worth from those assets.  ?? 

Combined LTV varies between 70 and 100%, rates of course too. expect about half a point over prime. 

That return might be half a percent in bad times or 20 in good times but there's always something there.

My "moving" consists of half riding my bike, half bodyweight exercises like push ups, pull ups, body squats, planks.

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