Key provisions like bonus depreciation, the 20% pass-through deduction, and 1031 exchanges have saved investors thousands of dollars each year.

Why on gods green earth if you can save on commission, gain experience, meet investors and manage your own properties would you want to invest in a market outside of where you are?

For example, a property in San Diego may lose $500 per month ($6,000 per year) but gain $60,000 per year in value, making it worthwhile to "lose" money each month in exchange for long-term gains.I recommend you start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

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For funding, explore options like FHA loans, personal savings, or creative financing, and focus on New Jersey markets that align with your goals, such as Newark for rentals or commuter towns for house hacking.

If you want to talk condo law in Hawaii, I can tell you the aftermath of the Lahaina fire makes me hesitant to have an HOA ever again, but we will save that for the blog!

Simply put that money in your pocket and save it up for repairs. 

$10K savings to you or higher cost to you? 

There will be many situations where you can help a homeowner save their home -  however, in other situations they just want to sell quickly which provides a wholesale, fix/flip, buy/hold opportunity for you. 

Pairing a smart lock, such as the Schlage Encode, with Hospitable saves so much time since Hospitable seamlessly automates door code management by creating unique codes for each guest reservation and then, subsequently removes the codes after the guest checks out.