Debt-Paydown and Tax Benefits are also a result of time. 

You will get some cash flow, appreciation, and tax benefits along the way.

The stodgy that most of the investors that I work with use is to make sure that every 1-2 years they look at their portfolio and capture the equity to help grow their wealth.As a benefit for the investors that I work with we have partnered with a company that we met at BPCON that looks at this exact thing.

The preliminary analysis can have lots of data, so it's important that the provider thoroughly review it with you to explain what depreciation tax deductions Cost Seg study provides and what depreciation benefit you would get w/o Cost Seg.

As mentioned the main downside to using a SDIRA to purchase properties is you get no tax benefit upside (depreciation) and have to pay taxes on UDFI.

When I signed up with Gator, the first step is signing up with PCS to get LLC and things set up and I got a HUGE discount to use their services (another benefit of gator).

Self-managing the STR has some great tax benefits if you meet IRS requirements.  

Watch the benefit of hard assets, especially in the future. ya again the cash flow is everything and I dont care if it appreciates or I dont expect the property to appreciate..

It’s a bit of a tangled web, but if you need more info on it, do your research first, and then you can contact me to help you sort out the current rules. 3) The tax benefits are severely hampered if you there is any money from your original property that doesn’t get spent on the replacement property, so it’s best to purchase a more expensive one to avoid losing those benefits.4) It is imperative that you do not receive any money directly from the sale of the original investment property.

If you are only using a license to represent yourself...there is zero benefit.