You have companies like Peir1, sweet tomatoes, soup Nation,..... gone for good now with some more on the horizon.I'm generally not a pessimist, but how could there not be a negative effect?

So the plot seems to thicken. 

If you 'house hack' and rent out rooms from your primary residence, you should be able to claim 75% of the income to hit ratios for future financing.Overall, you may want to consider house hacking a new place every 2 years or so.  (Up

UPDATE: The plot thickens.

As an investor who has used simple 1031's for rental property exchanges, I wouldn't proceed without a thorough professional review and you will need a pretty specific profile of property you want to exchange into in order to plan out the whole transaction soup to nuts.

"So, up to 100,000 in equity this year, as in the last 5 months?

James - everyone says they have a soups to nuts operation.

Kucy Ariyoshi I've done this before I visit soup kitchens to feed the homeless, and also I know many people in my school alone who aren't in the best situations ever, I'm just a lucky that I have a great family because there's so many people I know personally in my school who are poor and live in projects as well as many illegal immigrants who are struggling from my church that I go to.

It has everything from soup to nuts.  

Structuring a rental in that pre-packaged soup to nuts manner does in a sense make it retail.....Will,I'm sorry to hear you got stuck in that.