Pick one or two . 

To minimize capital gains tax on the sale of their primary residence, your in-laws can utilize the $500,000 capital gains exclusion, potentially explore an installment sale to spread tax liability over several years, or consider converting the property into a rental to use a 1031 exchange for tax deferral eventually.

Coos Bay - The main delay with application in this area is whether the property is on public utilities or has a septic system and private or public water source.

I plan to put a $600 utility cap in the lease.

With EPIC theme park opening in a few months, this area is seeing bookings pick up, but it is a very competitive and crowded market.

Are there any strategies here to utilize bank funds for our project?

-why did you group LOMO in as one neighborhood when it’s actually about 5 different ones, but specifically picked out Dickinson Narrows/Wharton/Newbold to be their own-Not knocking your list as all i think it’s awesome and pretty much as good a list of neighborhoods as you’re going to get, i’m just pointing out my own perspective from personal experience

So I picked up a few books which includes, "The Book on Investing In Real Estate With No (and Low) Money Down," and "The Book on Rental Property Investing," both by Brandon Turner, which introduced me to the BiggerPockets community.With a decade of experience in property management under my belt, along with my property management certifications and an NC real estate broker’s license (with Broker-In-Charge designation), I’m eager to leverage my background to secure long-term financial stability for my family.

If I would have used competent management, the manager that I picked and vetted, then it would have cash flowed, assuming they could have filled the vacancies.The big lesson I learned is that the property manager selected can make or break a deal. 

Older properties can be picked up for < 50% of ARV and go up in value in rapid ways with urban renewal efforts … I’ve seen this happen time and time again and so it’s worth saying, diversification is ideal.