Unfortunately, unless you see the underlying financials as well as supporting data for those financials, you do not know whether there actually was cash from operations to pay your distribution or not. 

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Customer service from a support perspective matters of course, but no hang up or delays on investing would take place.

You will want enough return for the deal to support itself or you won't be able to scale well.

Your new ARV(after repair value) should be supported by an adequate amount of comparable sales in the area(duplex's).

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Quote from @Patrick OHalleran: Hi David - I used HallCPA for a Consulting engagement (about $5k) and found the tax planning support to be very helpful. 

It was a hard time for my family and I can’t thank PPR enough for all their support during that time.

But I would urge planners to consider that the Sec 263 regs they rely upon for the justification for not expensing remodeling costs is actually an exclusion section which prohibits deductions under pspecified circumstances that being that the amount was: "paid out for new buildings or for permanent improvements or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate."

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