You can use bonus deprecation to offset a significant chunk of your w2.

This could allow you to take advantage of bonus depreciation, which can significantly accelerate the depreciation deductions in the year you place the property into service

Have plenty of reserve cash saved up in case you need to bonus your trades to do your job next. 

I’d conclude that a MTR is a unique market itself, sufficiently different from convention LTR and from STR market to merit it’s own category.  

The landlord friendly laws are an added bonus.

As an added bonus, doing all of this well can often land you on the "vendor list" of a company, putting your contact number as the first call to make when placing the next crew passing through.I apologize for the long-winded reply as you probably know and understand all of this, but there might be a reader that doesn't. 

.• Bonus depreciation is winding down, as many of us know.

Without the 1 on 1 coaching the price for the course is not worth it, you only get access to the lengthy videos and under delivered bonuses.

That's just my $.02 but I'm sure others have been operating differently with success.As for neighborhoods, West Side, South Buffalo, Kaisertown, decent sections of Black Rock and Riverside, pockets of North Buffalo, maybe some sections of Cheektowaga are going to fall into those categories.

But if you do renovation after you move out of the primary residence, you might be able to take benefit of bonus depreciation or sec 179(if qualified).