We always advise our investors on verifying with the lender or us reaching out to the tax assessor's office to get a good idea of what the taxes are.

We don't believe in VIP tracks and want everyone to come in feeling equal so your ticket is your all-access pass, the only exception being a la carte workshops on Sunday before the conference kicks off.

You’re definitely on the right track thinking through tenant demand upfront, especially with a lot of similar inventory sitting.For marketing, Zillow is really it.

but then turn around and suddenly we moved offices to a fancier office with an expensive build out.

Our office receives about 50 of these a month from various wholesalers and I always look at ones I don't recognize to see what people are trying.

Awesome that you are already on the track to figuring out a strategy.

Quote from @Devin James: In one of our development projects, the City staff asked us to remove 40 units from our concept plan.This wasn’t requested by the City Commission at a formal hearing, it was the opinion of the staff.Our original concept already proposed fewer units than the current zoning would have allowed.Here’s what erasing 40 units means:- 40 fewer homes for buyers- Over $1M in lost profit for our team- Fewer tax dollars and impact fees that could’ve benefited the City’s infrastructure & servicesWe gotta get betterEveryone wants more affordable housing, but not everyone wants to do what it takes to achieve it we never listen to the recommending bodies. we move for city approvals and work closely. the other thing we do is keep going back to the same groups over and over and over and over every month on the same agenda and make very small reductions like 2% or 4% and that reduces and beats them down eventually they accept what you want. it's just before beating a dead horse. we keep tabling until they give us something we all agree on then we go to vote. in our city in columbus we have to get recommendations but that's our strategy. we used to come out as aggressive as possible. we typically study developments in the area and keep it very similar in terms of density. we have a track record of very controversial projects and litigation and not taking no as an answer. after a year of that haha I can tell you it's not worth it. now we are more relationship based and buying the right kinds of plots of land. if the numbers don't work on the front end don't do the development. 

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Another idea for housing economy if you have an office is to rig your office to live in but not sleep in. 

I believe you can deduct the other business expenses (home office, supplies, repairs, maintenance etc) - but the bulk of it (depreciation) is likely passed on to later years.So first house 2021 - I'll assume 250k purchase price and you put roughly 20% or 50k down.