Most of the time, the family will want to see the home prior to agreeing to staying there.

When the houses were just acquired it usually took me two to four weeks to get a tenant in them though I had some that were rented prior to make-ready and renovations being done, that's happened a couple of times.  

My parents bought many SFRs in 70s and 80s and with mortgage rates at 18-19% but always made money as rents greatly exceeded mortgage payments, because home prices matched incomes for 200 years prior to 1994, then FED started money printing x 30 years until now.

He collected first/last/security payments prior to move in date and was never heard from again.

Hi all,I recently passed my Salesperson exam in California, and was looking at different brokerages. 

So if you have one unit advertised for rent on 6/1, another on 8/1, and another on 10/1, this will affect the depreciation  % on the tax return.Repair vs capex: capex would typically include all costs prior to the property being placed in service INCLUDING mortgage interest, insurance, property taxes, utilities, etc.

We had a third party report done for our prior offerings (similar to how a mutual fund has a third party verification report to verify the returns). 

Don't take their unofficial advice as gospel, so do appropriate due diligence prior to making changes to the property. 

@Wiey Underwood Prior to pulling the trigger on a Cost Seg study, you should evaluate 2 things:1 - How much net additional deprecation tax deductions a Cost Seg study would provide: Best way to get this is by requesting a free feasibility analysis from a Cost Seg provider.

I just finished rehab on my first Cleveland property and we're waiting on the lead certificate to come back which I'm told 30-60 days. I have a rental agent in charge already established and started the rental registr...