Thus, I might purposely defer paying property taxes on some units until after the new year (our property taxes are usually due by 2/1 or 3/1 of each year, depending on the county/municipality) if I know I'm going to need that additional deduction, since taxes would be claimed in the calendar year you paid them, or if I know I have enough deductions from rehab projects to essentially be wasting the tax deduction this calendar year.

Do the calendars talk to one another at all or do you have to manually de-conflict them?

Thanks Terry Mclain - I'll put it in my calendar!

You count calendar days except for Sunday and holidays.

Further, in the states where they do apply, there are often exemptions available for 3 or fewer transactions per calendar year.  

@Adam Homan  keep your eye on the calendar with this first rental.  

My plan is to start a 7 person investment group invest our own money until the group becomes healthy with a portfolio of units and become a llc of investments in Panama City beach and grow our business and wealth go to VRBO and look up PCB 1b1b look at at least 20 units calendar  and the are all booked year around .

As for the prices, if they don't like it, I walk away, on the bright side, if this puts more appointments on my calendar because they think I am cheap, then great, the downside is, private individuals will be afraid to do a transaction with me because they would think that I am "hard up for cash", then they are wrong --I have a 6 digit line of credit from private individual that I would not like to put on any application just because its not verifiable-- and I could care less, government entities or development projects doesn't care anyways.For private projects, I do not need the income on a weekly basis to pay my own bills (unlike the handymen and most small GCs where personal drama gets involved in your project), if they could cover payroll and materials weekly, then that's all I need, I will take the profit at the end and only after satisfying the contract.

I'm hoping on buying my first rental in 3-4 years and have a buddy who is buying his first rental next calendar year, and the networking opportunity would be a great way to open up more possibilities.

That sounds great - it is on my calendar for March!