I am taking my first steps toward FI and am interested in real estate investing.

If we do a sale, usually we'll pay off a bunch of debt or if our debt is getting high and we don't want to sell, we'll re-fi a property when our interest rate is about to reset anyway and pay everything off.

@Jill F. - I think you have the best approach to this matter, thoroughly screen potential tenants and the issue is negated a great deal.

Do you think SCI can possibly pay a mortgage for ?

House hacking Duplexes is how my wife and I got to Fi.

@Colleen F. I

Loosing  75% instead of 100%  your capitol is better than nothing. f. I

Timing: Complete the study within the property’s first tax year (by the extended tax fiing deadline) if possible; otherwise, a later study can use a catch-up adjustment but will be expensive.3.

These will be converted to seller fi deals when I finalize the purchases.

Quote from @Becca F.: I have been doing my own taxes and have a large amount of Passive Activity Losses from my rentals, don't want to mention the specific number but it's a lot in the thousands.