One of my rental units had it in the closet and one of the lines going to the unit was not insulated and was dropping condensing water on to the sheet rock slowly.  

I have a natural love/affinity to real estate and I’m looking to slowly build a rental business that I can grow into full-time.

Hoping to connect with some experts in investor friendly states that are rock solid for boring, predictable growth!

@Turner Wrightjust a couple questions for you to think about...1 - you may be rock solid on this already, but do local laws allow for both the conversion and the room-sharing?

I counted it as a lesson learned and didn’t ask them for the money or harass them due to the nature of the connection.

The Austin-Round Rock MSA saw a change in median sale price from $470,000 to $474,990 a month to month increase of $4,990 and an 4% increase from the previous year.The following infographics and data is courtesy of the Austin Board of Realtors:Housing inventory for the MSA saw a slight increase month to month inventory from 3.1 months in September to 3.2 months for October, and a 2.2 months increase over the preceding year.

I work with a lot of house hackers and naturally I have a lot more credibility and experience to share if I've already done it myself.Provide information to people free of the expectation that you will receive anything in return.

However, the best method I used to determine my CPA (or at least where I ended up) was just picking up the phone, calling places, asking a list of questions that were important to me, and scheduling a meeting if I decided they were worth a deeper conversation.Once the meeting came around (whether in-person or video chat), I asked very specific questions about my intentions of using the tax code to my advantage through REI and essentially 'tested' their readiness to lead a client of my nature. 

Don’t like to kill things, vegan/animal rights community, green or environmentally friendly community, natural/organic/anti pesticide community, or simply because it’s a better home building design.

It would help me with the math and margins where I struggle with naturally lol