Disclosure: StudentHello, I went to the first intro a couple of years ago and it has been an amazing experience.

Its relatively easy to manage the process once you do it a couple times.   

This can lower your tax bracket potentially and you earn interest on the income you would have normally paid Uncle Sam.10) At the close of escrow, move funds outside of the taxable estate to avoid the 40% estate tax on amounts over $11M single or $22M married couple.

If rates go down in the future, we likely will have another run up in prices, so it might be worth it to Airbnb while waiting that out for a couple of years. 

Couple this with the fact that values are appreciating (even in the interior neighborhoods) and it becomes a great opportunity all the way around.  

However, in the last couple of years, GLVAR modified their PM agreement to include an option for PMs to collect fees while the property is vacant.  

I have a couple buddies that are geological engineers.

Other than the 1 property I am renting my family's taxes are pretty straight forward with a couple W-2 and no LLC, so when I got the $1,700+ quote for tax preparation it seemed a bit much.

Interesting as there were a couple of posts a year ago after the widely distributed article in the media essentially calling it a STR crash.

Thank you again especially for your encouragement, it has honestly been a hard couple of months but I know its lessons I have to learn!