Quote from @Tom Enright: Hi Forum, I'm about to close on my first STR and plan on materially participating >100 hours this year as I'll be working on the property and plan to rent it the last 1-2 months of the year.

Quote from @Ngozi Iwunze: Hello BP community, I'm closing on a property in Downtown Cumberland Maryland.

Investing close to home allows you to gain hands-on experience, learn the ropes, and be more involved in the day-to-day.

Ideally, by the time we reach the closing date.

In our situation, would that seasoning period begin when we closed on the land in fall 2024?

I purchased my first single-family rental last year on LLC and I did the cost segregation study on that property now I talk with my CPA and mention about the cost aggregation study for filing the last year tax return (2024)he said that I don't need to use it because anyway my tax return is going negative because of all the expenses of closing cost insurance HOA and everything so what would you suggest me that use my Cross aggregation study for my tax return or not. thank you in advance for your response .Have you spoken with your cost segregation partner?  

In this market, I would not finance a first time flipper at 75% profit split because the profits and success rate is lower than the last dozen years.  

There's a few different ways to focus on a lower rate such as with house hacking and making the investment your primary residence, requesting a significant closing credit from the sellers for standard rate buy-downs (which I've had great success with recently), or utilizing lenders who offer short term rate lowering solutions such as 2-1 rate buy downs (again, ideally paid for by the sellers).

The rental deals in my area are not even close to what I was doing before.

When they do, you can refinance to a lower rate.Dealing with current high interest rates (about 7% on 01/27/2025) you have the following choices:A larger down paymentAccept a negative cash flowBuy down the interest rateCombine and balance all three to get an acceptable cash flow today.