Engelo turns down more business than he takes on.

Would it be too expensive to formulate potential future plan for entire parcel, then determine if that small part of it where house is now can be built now, potentially making the whole thing more valuable if/when time comes to sell, partner with someone or develop yourself?

This drives us to have a little higher barrier to scaling my investing business, however I am trying to go far, not fast. 

I and my business partner currently have over 30 units in Martinsburg and will continue to buy in Berkeley County.

All loan expenses can be deducted from LLC or business entity profits for the year and following years. 

I'm nervous because I've never had a business before and I still have a full-time job as a cloud solutions architect, which I'm really passionate about - so hopefully it won't be my golden handcuffs that may prevent me to thrive as an investor and  I'm excited because of all the benefits and freedoms being a business owner offers, one of which is to connect and collaborate with forums like this and people like all of you, where I can both learn from and hopefully share later as I develop more experience. :-)

Business has slowed down, and they are hungry looking for buyers and sellers. 

Lower of cost or market for determining the basis is also the correct way to treat a personal use asset being placed into service for business purposes.

Which in turn will bring plenty of other investors and general business to the market.

And I’m pretty sure the only reason he still manages it for me is bc I’ve given him a lot of business on the construction side of his business.