Rent paid for all of the expenses, so it cost me nothing and over the years (I kept it for ~20 years) price almost tripled by the time I sold it.Not sure what grad program is 3 years (I'm used to 2 for masters, 4 for PhD), but if you do need to sell one, I'd look at each property and see which one has the most equity, highest interest rates, lowest return, major expenses in the near future (eg new roof) and you mentioned you'd lived in two for 2 of the last 5 years, so have capital gains exemptions. 

If your losses come from something you "work" in, like your own construction business, they are nonpassive and exempt from PAL rules (although may still be limited by one of the other set of rules).Knowing how we love to call anything we do "business", the IRS clarifies what is considered passive and therefore restricted by PAL rules:1.

In other words, if there was a broken leg on your property that resulted in $250,000 in medical, lost wages, and pain & suffering, if there was gross negligence on your part, the total judgement could be $1.25 million, and worse, your insurance company could deny it.So what constitutes gross negligence? 

He's just like "I make $300K per year from my medical profession job, I'm going to make my life simple and aggressively pay down the mortgage, then do it one more time on another property, and that's it - early retirement." 

in particular make sure you know the value that will be added by the ADU and that in your case both units may be rent controlled (no 15 year exemption in some jurisdictions for a garage conversion were garage is over 15 years old.  

I have the full property tax exemption in Texas for my VA disability, but I'm trying to get clarity on the property tax exemption.

I'm older and need to build up my financial security knowing that I have a lot of future medical bills that are coming my way(multiple sclerosis).I look forward to chatting with you.

I went on to say they are running an illegal offering, they never filed any exemption from the SEC and have you ran this by your attorney?

Your LP’s will need to be informed they are behind a hard money lender, what those terms are and the risk involved with being behind that hard money lenderDepending on the lender they could require you or one of the LP’s to also personally guarantee the loan.In most states if you have more than one LP then you would need to register the offering with the sec (most likely as an exemption) but docs and setup would probably be $10k.Can it be done yes, is it typically done for a deal under $1-$5M, typically no

Credit scores are tricky because there could be items like medical debt or student loan debt that weighs the score down.