Actually, it is the President who drives tax policy. there has never been a major tax bill that was not initiated and supported by the President that I can recall.

Keep in mind that these homes are sold "as-is," so a thorough inspection is crucial to identify any potential issues that could affect your renovation budget and timeline.Special Requirements:Freddie Mac has a "First Look Initiative," which gives owner-occupant buyers an exclusive opportunity to purchase homes before investors can submit offers.

We were able to refinance with our go to bank at a decent rate in this environment which allowed us to pull out our initial investment and renovation cost.

One challenge about short term rentals is that they are not always booked and initially getting those bookings to a minute, people were more hesitant since we didn't have the super host and premier rating.

When did you change from your initial project management tool for 2-3 properties to something more sophisticated for managing 4-10 projects at once.Greatly appreciate everyone's thoughts and contributions!

There are plenty of short term rehab loans available that will help with the initial purchase, give you rehab money, and don't have any type of prepayment penalties.

So I stick with my initial assessment - insufficient due diligence was done at outset. 

And we rarely need to use them.Tenants sign and initial each page of the condition report at signing, we quickly go through the property and let them take as long as they want.Ideally at move out they would sign the condition report, but this is nor normally done. 

Property owners are almost always named as a defendant, at least initially.

Expenses for initial repairs before renting are usually capitalized and depreciated.