My gut tells me at least those meals were written off as business meals.Just my .02 cents.Terry

Whether it's top 5, top 3, or top 1 doesn't surprise me at all.

I already have a feeling that one of them was probably not very wise because I bought it for cash and cheaply so most likely in a poor area and will unlikely be able to refinance it. i will just pray that it continues to rent out and generate cashflow for me. At

@Michael Cavicchi  As an example, for me at least, I have a loan from someone for $120k. 

Knowing that a lender will take in to account the rental income from purchase puts me at ease.

A conservative estimate puts me at about $12,000 per yr if the seller is willing to forgo payments and just take a bubble when I refinance and take out the equity of the added value.

So its not like I could switch to that on the homes I already own and leverage scale for that to matter.Lastly, the pass through income being set to that 25% as opposed to the top bracket of 37% or whatever it is won't affect me at all either.

I can definitely see now that this deal just wouldn't have enough meat on the bones, I'm very grateful for everyone's participation in this thread!

Someone on BP actually recognized me at a charity event a couple years ago.

House hacking is unfortunately not an option for me at this time so I have to figure out something else.