Depreciation is the natural aging your home is allowed to endure, basically the standard calculation of wear and tear that enables you to deduct from your tax liability.

We've established a 10 year plan that should enable us to have acquired enough properties to be financially independent enough to where we can travel the world!  

I'm sure is current and usual practice and I m just trying to understand the underlying reasons that would push not to disclose some information, not to enable potential buyers to assess the property properly etc...Thanks in advanceBest

- Unpack the previous question: do most successful multi-unit investors get to that stage through first investing in SFR properties and building a portfolio that enables later multi-family investments?

Lenders, who never like to not be in control, have since altered their terms such that an change in ownership or control of a corporate body holding the mortgage triggers - at the lenders discretion - the due on sale clause.There are still other advantages to holding real estate in its own holding company, but not the big one which previously enabled financing to travel with the property. 

We're regularly presented with busted flips.In reality, unless a disaster occurs, most projects just go slow and you'd probably just give your friend a no-cost extension to enable him to complete the project and let the interest accrue.

Being in the management business for almost 15 years now, one of the greatest lessons I have learned is that you as a manager or owner can allow/enable a distressed tenant to dig themselves a hole too deep for them to climb out of...regardless of their best intentions.  

Would like to know what your experience was in making application.The program enables local governments and private agencies to work in partnership to expand the supply of safe and inexpensive housing for low-income families and indiviuals.

This could also enable you to basically live expense free if you can find the right deal and calculate for any expenses.

Contacting the listing agent has enabled me to win out over the other offers on more than one deal, since they have an incentive to accept the offer, getting additional commission.