Landlord: Focus on applicant criteria, vetting potential tenants, thorough lease agreements, outline tenant expectations, perform regular walk throughs with tenants, and use web-based rent collection and maintenance requests. 

Is there a significant fee that I would have to pay opposed to just going through a regular lender ?

[Self promotion removed by moderators]Next, it is important to work with an agent who works with investors regularly for obvious reasons.

I’ve heard about self managing owners creating alias cards or introducing themselves as the “property manager” using a pseudo name for identity protection.

“Regular” rent was $975 for upstairs and $1009 downstairs (we pay utilities out of this) with a mortgage of $900. 

(let’s say your deductible is $25,000).To add a buy-down program to your protection you would look to max your policy deductible (typically to $100k, $500k, or $1MM), which will decrease your premium.The Buy-Down program deductible could stay the same or decrease from than the original $25,000.The program provides coverage from your buy-down deductible up to your new regular policy deductible.The program would be an additional cost, but ideally would save money OR keep costs the same while lowering out of pocket expenses.Part 3 of 5: Who has access to Deductible Buy-Down programs?

Wash your hands regularly.

My regular painter has done similar houses for 3-3.5k with painting a deck, basement included, ceilings everything  I’d of course like to give my tenant the first rights to the business but it’s way too high.

UBTI is generated when a tax-exempt entity engages in a trade or business on a regular or repeated basis - such as flipping properties.A Solo 401(k) does have a narrow exemption from UBIT stemming from Unrelated Debt-Financed Income. 

I have been doing a Roth IRA for about 4 years and I opened a regular brokerage account as well.