As mentioned, those are up in the air but the current proposals could would wipe out part, or all, of those benefits.Based on a 3bd/2ba house in Tierra Santa specifically, the best case scenario seemingly looks like this: if you could buy the cheapest house on the market ($519k), your PITI would be about the same as your current rent. 

Just curious if they are good/easy to work with and if anyone has had any problems with them or all good experiences.

What that means is that if my modified adjusted gross income (AGI) on my tax return is less than $150k I can deduct some or all of the losses up to $25k.

In instances of purchase of property, lease is executed subsequent to buyer entering into a rental lease agreement with inherited tenants.This agreement is preceded by review of due diligence documents provided by seller to buyer.Tenants acknowledges that Agent is entering into this Lease in reliance on the information contained in Tenant’s rental application and or all other information provided to Agent by Tenants or Tenant’s current landlord/property management team in the event of a property sale, all prior to this lease agreement.

Brent Davis you may consider refinancing your primary to pay off some or all of your balloons if possible.

I am looking for properties on the smaller side that I can do most or all of the work myself.I’m looking into using hard money to fund the majority of the deal so any advice with that is helpful.

We would love to meet up with any (or all) of you for a drink sometime :) 

I would not ever want to depend on home warranties, which are usually inadequate and has fine print everywhere - and often uses substandard contractors.

Make sure you know how much the foam will expand... if you squirt a bunch of it in there, it can actually distort the frame and cause the window to bind up when you try to open it.If you're going to buy most or all of the windows at once, you might see if your favorite big-box store has a "pro" program. 

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