The inconvenience of adding to your commute will be far outweighed by the future earnings and ability to continue to buy properties.Just a thought :)

There are a lot of factors to consider when get a cost seg study to determine if the benefits outweigh the costs.

There are a lot of factors to consider when get a cost seg study to determine if the benefits outweigh the costs.

These folks are full time, possibly part time investors that have enough capital to back up their investments and truly understand that what they put out in management fees is far outweighed by appreciation and tax breaks.  

However, as long as you stay on the right side of the law, I think being an agent greatly outweighs the liabilities.  

With rental real estate, when you combine cash flow, appreciation, tax benefits, and principal pay down, the return should outweigh that of the S&P500.4.

Even were 1031s to be gone, we still believe that, on balance, the benefits to real estate investors of government policies FAR outweigh the costs. 

This does reduce returns slightly, but because you’re levered your returns STILL outweigh owning in cash.

Now you've given up any covered parking, so make sure the cost/benefit of the bedroom outweighs covered parking.

All of my mortgages send out email announcements when a payment has posted, so it would be easy to still keep track if he is making his payments or not and if he is not, you could step in temporarily without ever dinging your credit score by using that couple grand that he gave the seller at closing.There are risks involved in any sub2 deal, but often those risks can be mitigated to acceptable levels where the benefits outweigh the risk.I'm not going to pretend to have knowledge about the inner workings of another person's mind.