My issue is that in the opinion of the remediation contractor (who has a financial incentive to recommend as much remediation as possible) all that wouldn't reduce mold levels long term, due to the fact that it's a basement in Portland, and the levels on the report are extremely common in basements in the area where no water intrusion had happened.

I have been gaining momentum for three years and I often think if I had just pulled the trigger years ago I would be in a much better position.

A little background on us.....we are both very knowledgeable individuals and extremely ambitious.

OOS is extremely challenging from a beginners prospective.

I’d like to invest in farm land but it’s extremely expensive and hard to come by as of right now.

If you add to the title, you may trigger a new accessed value losing that low property tax basis. 

. $240k is priced to trigger a bidding war, I just am not a fan of the neighborhood.

For real estate investors, arriving to an accurate estimate is extremely hard.

People often want to look you in the eye and see if they are willing to take the next step in trusting you with something that is extremely important to them.Youtube is owned by google and is the 2nd largest search engine.

If the conversion of use doesn’t trigger any depreciation recapture or other negatives, then I could theoretically: buy a home, rent it as an STR for one year, claim all my bonus depreciation to offset W2 income, and then covert it to an LTR year 2.