While multi-family units can offer higher cash flow, they often come with increased management complexity and tenant turnover, aligning with your goal to minimize hassle.Investment Allocation: With a budget of $300k, diversifying across several SFHs in Raleigh could maximize both cash flow and appreciation potential.

It is not uncommon to allocate 3 to 4 months rental income just for taxes.  

I am more than happy to share my preferred lenders that specialize in investment properties, home inspectors, contractors, landlord and builders risk insurance carriers, and CPA's that know to do cost allocation studies with my investor clients (that's how you know you have a CPA that knows real estate investing accounting).

There could be other issues as part of that downpayment will be allocated to capital gain as well which could be as high as 23.8% plus state rates.

Most of us accept the concept of a marketing budget to explain how we allocate time and money to find buyers and sellers, including through targeted cold calls.

Boot would first be allocated to any depreciation recapture that you have and would be taxes at 25% flat rate for federal purposes and then what ever your state rate is, then the remaining boot amount would be allocated to your capital gain and taxed at a maximum rate of 15% for federal purposes and what ever your state rate is.

Make sure you have the proper amount of reserves to allocate WHEN things go wrong though.

A househack is part personal residence, part investment property.As such, payments for the full property have to be allocated to personal and business deductions.

I get a standard bill from the city every month which makes it easy to allocate. 

I am looking to buy more properties but putting down 20-25% each time plus closing costs etc is a lot of money that I also want to allocate to other goals.I have heard partnerships are a strategy to leverage other people’s money to create deals that will benefit both sides depending on terms that are setup.