This setup helps us reduce our mortgage each month and makes our home work as a true investment.

Directly investing in real property investments, whether property, notes, tax liens, or leases requires a THOROUGH understanding of all LEGAL aspects concerning real estate law in general and the investment in particular.It’s IMPOSSIBLE for someone who hasn’t accumulated either a legal education in real estate law or 20 years active experience to have the knowledge and understanding of legal aspects sufficient to reduce legal risk to an acceptable level when investing directly in tax liens, notes or real property.  

Has anyone successfully appealed or reduced their property taxes in Wayne County?

Financing on those is not as good so reduces returns going in.

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My assumptions may be off  especially if you get the loan at a reduced rate, but it seems like you would need to get it close to the price you are indicating.

Also, I think this can be negotiated with the state as well and potentially reduced.

Hybrid Rental StrategyRent as an STR during peak seasons, then switch to mid-term rentals during slower months to increase income and reduce vacancy risks.2.

The seller will have reduced debt capacity because the existing note is still calculated as a debt - they MAY be able to include an offset equal to the buyer payments after a period of time, BUT often the seller is surprised to find they can not qualify to purchase another property3.

Since I have the $500K exemption, does that reduce the exchange amount from $2.5MM to $2MM?