If you build the wealth when you can it will give you a lot more flexibility and options later in life as it’s a marathon not a sprint  Totally in fact it is better to eradicate this passive investing mentally into  active investment wealth building slowly ….

If its going to make or break him, might be better for mental health to sell.Austin is a great market and Id be willing to bet the vacancy could be plugged quickly. 

But that type of mentality: not admitting when you’re wrong, sidestepping when you’re at fault and in return putting someone else down sounds like 1) our president and therefore, 2) not someone I automatically want to give my money to. 

You need an Eat what you Kill mentality if you take this path.  

Having a 24 month term on the front end will also make my job easier doing the take-out loan when it's time to refinance into permanent debt, because there's room in there for a full year of tax returns to have been done in the middle (if your exit plan is to sell, it'll also make it easier on your buyer who will presumably be willing to pay a higher price if they can get an A-paper good mortgage).Ask for a 24 month term, tell your contractor you want it done in a year (and make it financially worth their while if they can pull it off), internally/mentally plan on 18 months, and I'm putting you on notice now to do your tax returns on time, rather than extending them (don't fight me on this, please just do it).Trying to get a renovation mortgage like this for only 1 point is likely a waste of your time, but if you want to ask, after you've secured the above as a 'done deal,' go for it, can't hurt. 

If your CPA doesn't have viable solutions for you, then make sure you exhaust your idea with more professionals as you may outgrow your CPA's "traditional" knowledge.

You're going to want to follow the following general rule of thumb:- 0.5 mile radius- same zip code- Sold in last 3 months- Same unit count- Same bed/bath count- Same square footage(this is not fully exhaustive but they're the big ticket items)If the appraiser selects comps that are closer matches to the above than the comps you want to use, you're going to have a tough chance arguing for the usage of your comps over theirs. 

Sure you have some people who have limited ability to move up the economic ladder because they have intellectual or mental health issues but I just don't get long term section 8 for as many people as there are on it.

It is up to your salemanship but if she has just mentally walked there is not much you can do.

Maybe it's a bit more LA mentality, but I don't see someone from Garner to east and up to Wake Forest stomaching a 45 minute one way daily commute to where the higher income in-office jobs are located, which I'm leaning into for greater likelihood to afford rent now and increases later.