You must work at least 750 hours per year in a qualified RE business.So most people who have high-earning W-2 jobs outside of real estate won't qualify.But the unique thing about RE pro status is that even if you don’t qualify but your spouse does, you can both file jointly and claim the losses from your RE investments to offset your other active income together.It's an incredibly powerful benefit if you do meet the criteria.

By and large, MTR residents are coming to work (or for relocation due to flood, fire or wind), and they approach finding housing with their analytical brain, not the emotional one.It's also not uncommon that the person tasked with finding accomodations for the MTR resident isn't going to be staying there at all.

Pays power but water /sewer are unpaid for 2 years & accruing in my name & they won’t shut off water to an “occupied” house.

They really don't have the power or right to place any kind of lien on the property while they simply have it under contract and aren't doing any improvement to the property. 

Everyone can do market analytics, even realtor, I may not really need them, but the contractor is the key in real estate flipping business. 

It can be an extremely powerful tool to start to scale. 

Keep growing that Roth IRA, as the principals of compounding interest in the absence of taxation are powerful! 

Volume isn't a problem for us because we have built some Chrome plugins and AI solution that does it nearly autopilot.  

But, as tou sharpen your analytical skills, and quantify the parameters of your search, you’ll be able to better target a doable deal.  

While no properties actually flooded, the entire area was a disaster - roads destroyed, rescues, loss of power, and loss of safe drinking water than lasted for two weeks.