@Ned Carey made an excellent point that MFH did the best of any commercial segment during the crash.

Buyers owning three or more properties represented the fastest-growing segment of homeowners during that time.

Check out IRS pub 551.Chapter 6 of Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide by Stephen Fishman has a really good explanation of segmented depreciation and how you can go about doing it.I'm sharing a list of common assets with IRS approved class lives that you can use if you want to segment the deductions (use cost segregation, minus the cost segregation study). http://www.trexglobal.com/assetlist.pdfHope that helps!

There is another segment that I'm working on targeting and I expect that will get me at the number I'm looking at.

It gives you some of the benefits of business owner without having left your job.2> Depreciation which get recaptured at the capital gains rate rather than your income tax rate, which is higher in most normal situations.3> Accelerated depreciation if you segment short-life assets.

Inflation hits segments of the market differently.

I do think we will continue to see some appreciation this year -- we see a lot (50%+ in some market segments) of cash buyers, and they aren't going away or getting weaker as interest rates rise. 

Learn how to create your own list(s) of motivated Sellers and segment based on soecific criteria. 

This may be a segment of REI that may be perfect for you.

While the entire REI industry excites me, I am deciding to jump into the buy and hold/rental income segment 1stMy story-I currently live in Orlando Florida, and intend on purchasing my first few properties in the state, targeting Central and North Florida Areas.