You'll want to take a spreadsheet and create a list of all properties you've purchased...particularly in the last 36 months and include the address, lender, purchase date, either rent you receive or disposition date, how much you sold it for, how much you rehabbed it, etc.

It takes time to identify these properties  and often requires physical observation, not merely sitting behind a computer scanning through property listings, but they are out there.

What our clients generally do is take the average gas billing for the year while occupied. give themselves a little wiggle room,  and build it into the rent as a flat rate, similar to water or electric with a single entrance. 

Our industry can easily get a bad rap for taking advantage of people.Hey Matt. 

Taking this idea one step further, I could put a mobile home in quite easily and then sell as a turn key home. 

It can take a year or more to complete an ADU.

It takes time to deploy money.

If they cannot follow that simple step, how do I expect them to take direction from my ops team or show up on time?

I was thinking of selling 1 house and taking some profits, but I have become aware of the following federal taxes1.

I run a full-time planning practice focused on real estate investors, so I wanted to add a few thoughts for context:1.Cash Value Takes TimeMany IULs (Index Universal Life policies) may take 7–10 years before you can borrow a meaningful amount of cash value.