Either way, with rent and price appreciation, tax benefits, holding long term is a net worth exploder.

Overall, the tax benefits and appreciation alone keep me interested in staying with it more than the cash flow itself. 

Newton's law of tax: What goes down must come up.Everyone enjoys the sweet benefits of bonus depreciation, but what happens when you sell?

Depending on how you use the property, you may benefit from a cost segregation study and bonus depreciation once the property is in service. 

Quote from @Noah Bacon: Hi Robert,Stessa and RentRedi provide different benefits and features.

The reason being they see no benefit and they do not understand it. 

Many benefits to doing so. 2) If you are going to invest outside your area, the one thing I rarely see mentioned here is simply the "investment landscape".

Would anyone happen to know of any recent promotional codes that are still valid to use? 

From that point, assuming another $500/mo, you'd then have 36k in 1.5 years, and so on.Also, real estate allows for much better tax benefits, debt retirement, and appreciation opportunities (as well as increasing rent over the years).Well what'dya know.

He continues to deny he lives there, lied to the police when they came with a code violation and inspection, and most recently overloaded the electrical and blew/snapped the line!