With those stats, you'll pull half the accountants in the forum out of the woodwork, most of us would be more than happy to work with someone in your financial position as it means we can provide a fair amount of value.Whoever you work with, I would recommend you consider finding a firm with substantial experience to offer in both real estate, and estate/gift planning given your goals.. 

If you are okay with someone painting over your original woodwork (even though the lease says they can't) or ruining your marble countertops when they dye their hair (true stories) then you may be emotionally hardened enough to rent your original home that you have lovingly designed.Consider, also that at times you will have to carry two large mortgage payments and decide if you are willing to do that.

I'm particularly passionate about passive incomeOutside of real estate, I enjoy being in my woodworking shop Excited to learn and connect with you all!

Wood working,  working on cars, etc. 

While it's always best to have a plan for how you are going to execute your exit strategy BEFORE you get started, if you're like me and just jump in you could easily find yourself wondering how to execute this plan if your initial plan runs into problems.BP is full of great advice on refinancing and if you just post that is what you're looking for, the vendors will come out of the woodwork. 

Up until recently there was not all these people coming out of the woodwork warning people about Scott. 

She gave me a very vague list of work completed with numbers ("dent to woodwork $," "Paint, $," "Hardwood scratched $" etc), but I cannot match any work done in the house with the list.

The one we were looking at really needed all new wiring and quite a bit of exterior woodwork to be redone. 

Money will crawl out of the woodwork if they sniff you having a deal.

I’d buy it today because for me the finish line isn’t a year from now, the finish line is 7 years from now, 10 years from now.And once the market heats up, buyers come out of the woodwork and you might miss that good property is hopes of being the one to snag it at a perfectly timed market bottom.Just my approach…..