Imagine you bought a property for $2M.The land (excluding any structures) is valued at $400K.Since land is not depreciable in the eyes of the IRS, we subtract the land value from your purchase price to get your depreciable basis.Your depreciable basis is simply where a cost seg engineer starts from when allocating your eligible assets into either 5, 7, or 15 year property.In the scenario above, your starting basis would be $1.6M since your basis = your purchase price - the land value.Having an accurate land value is essential to getting your depreciation/bonus depreciation calculations right.This is the starting point for any cost seg study that you do.

Like "renting to section 8 tenants is actually really easy", "your agent is not on your team just connect with people like me doing hundreds of deals every day and use my team instead", that hood properties will have "15-25% net caps" for beginner out of state investors when in reality they will definitely lose money every month due to the rent not being enough $ to maintain a rental property, never mind all the tenant issues involved with this property class or the difficulty of managing them remotely... but he's done thousands of them just this week while sitting on the beach in Florida... 

@Carl TrubLots of legal and tax implications - you should look at having them put the home in a living trust.I am not an attorney but there are ways to make it so your cost basis is today's value versus a lower value such as if you buy it at a low cost.

Is there any particular maintenance that is required in a regular basis?

A cost segregation study was performed on this auto repair shop in Nevada with a depreciable cost basis of $1,250,000.

Any tips on how can i find a bigger group to rent to on monthly basis ?  

I am open to meeting new and inspiring investors every day, and I am grateful for the opportunities real estate investing has brought me over the years.

So whether you sell to their trust or to them individually it still has to pass from you in order to do the 1031.But even more you don't want to be in ownership when they pass so you can get the step up in basis and inherit the property tax free.

IF you were to renovate a non-conforming unit, that unit would now need to be brought up to code.When or if you rent out the unit, you, of course, run the risk of the tenant calling the city and saying the property isn't up to code, which would, in turn, cause an inspection by the city and likely result in some violations that would require you to bring the unit up to code.These types of units are ALL OVER the city of Chicago and be rented out on a daily basis, but there is still clear risk associated with renting them out.

We have someone on site building, that is not here every day either, so that does nto help.