After reading the article, it stoked my curiosity so I decided to do a little bit of research on my market and found some interesting information that I thought I'd share to show the merits (or lack thereof) for staging.

And it gets worse when you accrue high interest and/or fees that exceed the value of your purchase.

Out of curiosity why would you want to charge 3% if the market rate is 10%?  

Out of curiosity, what was the appraiser's reasoning for not including the entire square footage? 

Just out of curiosity, has anyone here tried the cash for keys approach and had success?

Renew the judgment, plus your accrued interest, plus your "legal costs", before the ten year mark, or the judgment becomes void (along with the abstract).

@Jacob FitzgeraldWhen I started I had an LLC but never used it, after years past and I accumulate a handful of rentals my CPA told me to start transferring them into my LLC for tax purposes, but I see a lot of people see a LLC as a safe way of lawsuits accrue but that’s not really what it should be meant for, but again I’m just repeating what my CPA said, LLC should be used more as a tax benefit tool and you should always have your properties insured by a insurance company and offer your renters the option of renters insurance, I also have gone to the extent to have that subject inputted into our leases with the tenants initials and verbal explanation as well at the time of signing.

Just time your HELOC payments on your expenses as close as possible to your paycheck to pay off, so you don't accrue much daily interest on your HELOC.

Great insight.Out of curiosity, why couldn’t he attack that remaining tax liability with Cost Seg?

I don't advise buying new properties because there are limited ways for you to build equity vs buying/accruing equity but having a second income stream changes everything, if the numbers work than bet on yourself and trust the math.You're on a great path, let me know if you need anything further, I hope you keep the community updated!