It sounds like at your age and stage of life you want to create more diversification to preserve wealth.

If a lender isn’t responsive during the initial stages, I’ve learned that’s a strong indicator that it’ll be a painful process all the way to closing.

Instead of worrying about taxes at this early stage, it may be more productive focusing on finding the right deal, the right funding and the right contractors.

So if you buy and rent out a retail center or an apartment building or increase the existing income the property is going to be worth more and can be refinanced easier.

Purchase price: $1,435,000 Cash invested: $3,010,600 Sale price: $8,400,000 We identified multiple lots around the light rail system in WA, where we felt that properties are going toincrease in value significantly, these lots were re-zoned from SFH to multi-family (MUR35mostly), we have developed, permitted and starting to build: 8849 Midvale Ave N, Seattle – Two combined lots, zoned for multifamily where we built 12 townhomes 23007 55th Ave W, Mountlake Terrace – 7 townhouses in a walking distance from thelight rail station, in planning stages with the city of Mountlake Terrace, WA

I run a call center for real estate, would love to give you some pointers

Consider hiring a professional photographer or even staging the home to make it stand out

Public records will reveal if a home is in the pre-foreclosure stage.

I'm in the beginning stages of planning an ADU build in Raleigh, NC.

I'm now realizing that in the state of South Carolina, the tax rate jumps 2% for rental properties to help fund public schools, a $600/mo cost that I didn't account for when using the calculators in the earlier stages.