When we live in an area (Seattle) where houses are so expensive , it's hard to imagine these low price points.

You were talking about cash flow so I imagine the idea is to rent the apartments.

And if you only plan to sell the property because it's doing worse than you imagined, the grass might not be greener on the other side.

My goal in obtaining a well paid w2 job, whatever field that may shake out to be, is I either can take over as breadwinner so my husband can focus on RE, or we can continue to live off one income, and pour the other into investing.

I would imagine prices are much more reasonable.

Just try to imagine at closing... what does the title co tell the buyer?

Correct my kids less and not make a big deal over small things. in all reality, going back in time machines has proven to be an exercise in imagination.

That's a red flag for many of the reasons you can imagine.

Imagine yourself 5 or 10 years from now.

As there hasn't been any, we have to take the IRC and Regs at face value.In a nutshell, it's a trade or business determination.I imagine if you sell a rental property at a substantial loss you're going to want to take a 1231 loss (trade or business) instead of a capital loss (investment)?