Huntsville, in particular, has strong job growth, steady appreciation, and a high demand for quality rental homes.

Or we gradually perform high-quality updates for a live-in flip, then roll the equity into a new home.Regarding rental income, we aim to boost income, lower our effective tax rate by generating more low tax-drag income with rental income (since there’s not much we can do to lower out W2 tax bills) and have retirement cash flow.To compare the financial impact over 10-20 years, we want to analyze renting versus flipping.

Focusing solely on numbers often leads to the purchase of low-quality properties.

Completely agree with you on this; I'm not making any claims to the quality of these lenders here.

If you follow my advice above you will likely buy quality by default.

I'm in the process of purchasing a STR and am intrigued by the 3-2-1 buy down. 1st year of the loan would be 4.5%, 2nd year 5.5%, 3rd year 6.5%, 4th year standard market rate.

However, you can still depreciate the remaining basis under standard MACRS rules.

I'd hate for a temporary dip in the quality of the tenant pool to be giving my landlord "spidey sense" false alarms on account of taking an extra month or two to fill a unit.

Are their listings detailed with good quality photos?

The market in Racine is much different than Kenosha and we have been having a hard time getting quality tenant applicants.