Use floating closing dates and contingencies. 

For example, if you can prevent the nightmare tenant, you avoid--well-- nightmares (like real ones, where you lose sleep or wake up worried how the eviction will play out or toss and turn wondering if the non-paying tenants are trashing your place; you drift off imagining them doing nefarious things under dim lamps with bunson burners and beakers amid a pile of trash surrounded by half feral pit bulls resting on dirty mattresses)... 

Then 10 more years floating for a tOTal 20-year term.

Another question to ask is whether the interest rates are fixed or floating.

I plan on buying more properties and have the funds to float the note a bit till homes are repaired and rented. 

I own a SFH in Los Angeles and am thinking of making some upgrades-1) opening up a retaining wall that leads into the backyard and install a sliding glass door2) adding a 10x12 wood floating deckMy questions are:1) How would I calculate the increase in value for these upgrades?

The capital gain deferral until 2026 & 15% reduction in capital gains apply to only capital gains as well.I would recommend consulting with a CPA experienced in OZ's, there is a lot of misunderstandings floating around about OZ's.

I try to shoot for a floating number between 5-25% depending on how close we are getting to next recession.  

You have $350,000 in cash available to invest, and your bank has said that the potential financing terms would be 80% loan-to-value, 1.20 minimum debt coverage ration, 6.75% interest (fixed for 5 years and floating for the remaining 15 years of a 20-year term), with 1 point payable at the closing.

The below ideas are just being floated right now.