The safe harbor requires the Exchanger to have owned it for twenty-four months immediately before the exchange, and within each of those two 12-month periods the Exchanger must have 1) rented the unit at fair market rental for fourteen or more days, and 2) restricted personal use to the greater of fourteen days or ten percent of the number of days that it was rented at fair market rental within that 12-month period.

., but then don't have time or brain power left to focus on taxes.

Here are some of my thoughts: 1) they are work and have risk 2) in this hyper competitive RE market, there is not enough profit in the rehabs of most MLS listed properties.  

Or lower your price on a 6-month lease and then find a one-year tenant at market rate in the spring.

We were without power in a mess here in SC.

If you walk through every inch of the potential investment property with a powerful flashlight to look and test for leaks, you’ll know exactly what you are purchasing.What else should investors purchasing mobile homes look out for?

I'm also in the "never heard of future stay" camp.We now have 6 units all in the same, tertiary local market in the South, and we manually adjust our pricing based on how close we are getting to a unit coming open. 

The commercial real estate market (which includes multifamily) has suffered a big hit over the last couple of years. 

-How do we set ourselves apart from the other duplexes across the street without out pricing the market?

Hi BiggerPockets Community,I'm a first-time real estate investor and currently exploring different markets to make my first multi-family property purchase.