Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

good afternoon, I appreciate your advise in advance. 

I have a tenant who sent me screenshots of some conversation where he was letting the upstairs tenant know they were being loud and asked to quiet down. The all...

For reference, I am 30 years old and not married.

I'm out West at the moment, but will probably be returning to Tokyo before too much longer.At the risk of being contrarian, after picking up a couple of investment properties in Japan (one Tokyo, one outskirts), I shifted to a strategy of only investing in the US. 

If they get married it will help her earn SS benefits, etc etc. 

My fiancée and I are getting married in November and will be moving into a different rental in another part of town shortly after.

Hey, if you get married you'll be able to shield an extra $250k in capital gains!!

At the time, I had just graduated with a physics degree, landed a great job in the Bay Area, and was newly married.

Similarly, the sale ($575K) minus your adjusted basis determines your capital gain.You may qualify for the primary residence exclusion (up to $250K single/$500K married) if you lived there 2 of the last 5 years.

If the client is in CA the community property state laws may help here (not entirely sure) depending on when the property was acquired but it would be a great question for an attorney as Jason mentioned.If they were married and went through a divorce it would be worth looking into how the divorce paperwork stated how that property would be handled.