I'm puzzled as I entered all of our info into both turbotax and taxact and got extremely different results. 

It would take someone months if not years to go over all of the posts/podcasts, then try to decipher what is good info and what is not so good info through even more off-line research and by the time it's all said and done may only end up with pieces to a large puzzle sitting out on a dining room table.There is a reason that School Kids are taught by people, in a structured format with curriculum objectives, held accountable for assignments and not simply put into a classroom with podcasts playing, books on a shelf and spreadsheets on the desk and told.."

Buying a property just knowing the purchase price and potential rent without analyzing the complete picture would be like putting half a puzzle together.

even if you have not, there are plenty of amortization calculators that can help you understand your cash flow after a refi.you're not giving us enough specific information to help, but i also think you need to do a little more and bring us some specific questions that may be puzzling you.

Great job spending time working on your marketing campaign, that's an incredibly important piece of the puzzle. 

Puzzling....

During the sale his broker misrepresented total sqf and the seller was penalized for the mistake to the tune of close to $10k and also agreed to prepay RE taxes for a year.a) One of the similar units that has been on the market for 6+ months had me puzzled. 

Why someone would pay $49 million for a penthouse with a decent view of the SF Bay is as puzzling to me as paying some guy $10 to make potato salad.

I was thinking about this whole process earlier and realized that was the missing piece to my puzzle- find properties with no realtors assigned.

Had it just been the one property then I was going the F/F route because of %rates and the fact that I only have 2 outstanding mortgages.Low and behold, fate now throws a curve ball (not sure why I felt the need to do a sports metaphor), and now I'm having to learn about creative financing, legally of course.And @Michael Worleythis is yet another piece to this puzzle.