I have a good credit score (791 based solely on credit cards) make almost $200,000 per year, and have very healthy investment and retirement accounts in America.

Imagine making millions of dollars over the course of your career and then having to pay 30-50% every year to uncle sam instead of compounding that cash over time.This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.To reduce their taxable income, they just buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.

@Melissa SejourRecommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

It's simple enough to make a row for income, and another for expenses, and then subdivide those expenses, and add them up in the total expenses cell and then subtract the gross income from those total expenses to get my net.

By accelerating your depreciation schedules, you reduce your taxable income which in turn increases your operating cash flow.

Meaning if you only 'pay in' on say 50% of your income each year by using the S-Corp strategy that you will also only get a proportionate retirement benefit down the road?

So, if she bought the bitcoin for $1 million and is now using it to close on a $10 million property, that is a $9 million gain that needs to be accounted for in her income tax.

More on DSCR loans: DSCR loans won't use your income to underwrite the loan.

Does anyone know where you could find median income data by area in Portugal?

Delay receiving income into January.