Unless you are SURE of $10-15k plus annual appreciation you sell. 

And I see all these people doing it with this scheme and that scheme, and real estate investing content seems a golden ticket. 

It’s not an arms length transaction if your wife owns the selling trust that’s buying her parent’s property for less than market value.

I have a couple of people that this has happened to, and you need to have it in writing and tied to the property to make it work. 

But inflation for sure with hot Austin market and ice storm displacements.I am also remodeling a Lake House in Belton, Texas that we will likely sell, but I really thought MTR might do really well. 

That is who they write that article for so they can sell subscriptions. 

Real estate loans to owner occupied properties where the business of the owner is closed down - or SHOULD be, and the owner needs some time to sell the property.  

Having people write Spark Investment checks for $25K, $50K, $100K and more.

Even if the rental has a decent cash flow with additional flood insurance, we're still not sure we want to take on that risk as we are out-of-state investors (planning to move back to KY in the future, but not now) and we don't like that it will potentially bring down the perceived value when we try to sell it in the future.The seller has never lived there and has not provided any information on if it has flooded before or not. 

I find it to be a really good selling point for tenants and with the better quality units I have less maintenance requests.