Emphasis on the numbers working.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43946055/ns/business-us_...https://www.cnbc.com/id/44855323Oh wait, that is from 2011....I got it nowhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2012/...https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/recessio...Shoot...my bad, those are from 2013.....Got it now, definitive proofhttp://fortune.com/2014/10/28/global-recession-us-...https://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2014/12/2...Rats...that was my 2015 folderJust stop....you cant predict the business cycles.   

I specialize in individual and business taxes with an emphasis in real estate.

There are lots of ways you can force immediate appreciation on residential MFR's.I probably  should have put emphasis on the word "directly" in my statement: You can't directly capture forced appreciation in residential the way you can with commercial.

Allow me to put emphasis on estate planning attorney, just as your real estate attorney specializes in real estate and a brain surgeon specializes in brain surgery so does an estate planning attorney specialize in estate planning.So, what happens to your real estate properties if you died?

From Section 121(b)(5): (emphasis mine)(C)Period of nonqualified useFor purposes of this paragraph— i period of nonqualified use” means any period (other than the portion of any period preceding January 1, 2009) during which the property is not used as the principal residence of the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouse or former spouse.ii period of nonqualified use” does not include—portion of the 5-year period described in subsection (a) which is after the last date that such property is used as the principal residence of the taxpayer or the taxpayer’s spouseThe law does not mention anything about how the property was FIRST used.

The DTI for this portion alone equals 93.33% which moves the global DTI against your favor.

Mike Hurney My degree is in nutrition and my career goal is to be involved in global health research and field work.

Never forget that, for better or for worse, the US consumes 25% of everything on this planet, yet only contains 4% of the global population.

It also might be wise to wait a few months while paying down debt to see if this global trade war hammering the stock market will spell the end of appreciating real estate in the USA in 2018.It does not matter how much you are sending in on your student loan.