You will find low season starts once schools are back in session (mid-August) and runs to Christmas (excluding Thanksgiving).

The most common ways to meet the Accredited Investor standard are EITHER $1,000,000 of net worth excluding your primary residence OR $200,000 or $300,000 of income (single or married, respectively) in 2 of the last 3 years with a reasonable expectation to do so again this year.  

There is a special 2-year rule for the sale of a primary residence that could exclude up to $250K in profit per taxpayer from capital gains taxes.Just because you are in the 10% marginal tax bracket does not mean that all of your income is taxed at 10%.  

Assume Total Pre-tax Expenses (PTE) excluding non-cash expenses (depreciation) are about 50%.

I ask this, because Fannie and Freddie are willing to exclude a mortgage if you can show that you are not the one who has been paying it.

There is a limit on the amount of gain that may be excluded from taxes and there is no exemption for gain due to depreciation  taken since May 1997.  

In the last 10 years I have replaced one stove, one dishwasher and two refrigerators across all of our rentals (excluding buying new appliances for rehabs that had none).

Their system is extremely discriminatory to the cheaper programs, systematically excluding those members from the real quality education, while the premium program is essentially ineffective.The program is extremely mediocre, to say the least.

Payments that you make normally fall into one of 3 buckets100% of the payment can be factored in somewhere on the returnPartial payment can be factored somewhere on the return0% of the payment can be factored in somewhere on the returnHouse-hacking also has considerable tax implications in the event that you want to sell this property.You can potentially defer a portion or all of the gain on the investment property with 1031 exclusion.You can potentially exclude a portion or all of the gain on the personal residence with section 121 exclusion

I wondered if some average the first year ROI into the ROI for the duration of the rental or if they just exclude the closing and updating costs for the first year from the equation.