🎉 As we kick off 2025, I want to encourage all my fellow Americans stationed in Germany—or preparing to move here—to start thinking differently about your housing allowance.Did you know that your housing allowance could be more than just a rent payment?

What really matters is how long you think you will have this loan. 

Hi @Christopher Morris House Hacking is NJ is great way to go. 

@Joe Michaels, What a lot of investors will do is to use the 1031 exchange as @Michael Plaks said, isto actually "acquire" additional depreciable basis. 

@Caryn Fischer You can sell your house to your child below fair market value (FMV), but the difference is treated as a gift.

They can be problematic for guests to use, rely on connections with other devices that can fail, and are often easier to hack than a key lock.

I’d lean Stessa assuming you’re not house hacking. 

I respect him and what he did for BP, but that sounds like bad advice. 

House hack if you can, pool funds for a local investment if you can't (get an agreed exit plan in place first).Remember, you may not even like being a landlord.

Sold in 2022 for 3x what I had bought it for.