The rental property itself provides the tax benefits and not necessarily the entity structure.Depreciation should wipe out your cash-flow from being taxed, especially given the high prices of properties right now.You should have your tax returns reviewed if your properties are reporting positive taxable income.

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Unless the seller/lender is added to title as a joint tenant, which would be downright stupid, the only other way they are “getting the property back” after the death of the buyer/borrower would be to foreclose and be the high bidder at the auction.

Like others have mentioned, you will pay structurally more for a home warranty than self-insuring for the cost of repairs.This may be worth it if the value proposition was that you could be hands-off whenever a covered item breaks.In reality, it adds significant overhead because there is the claims process and you give up control of the repair timeline and quality as you have discovered.

Obviously paying interest on underutilized capital is sub-optimal but when factoring in the cumulative proposed transactional savings, the annual total interest cost could be equivalent or lower than the net of an alternative home equity line of credit on the same principal loan amount.One 'hack' could be to delay the actual closing of the DSCR loan until a quality purchase prospect is identified and/or near under contract.

And is it also a seller market right now, despite the high interest rate and it is hard to try to go lower on the price?

Look for areas with high need for rentals, growing numbers of people, and rising business activity.

I knew this property would be in high demand.

He will finance building the house. this can be done however you want -  my recommendation where I see things go wrong is everyone is high and drinking the kool aid when they go into these deals thinking they are going to be making all this money.

But if you buy a property low enough and value comes in high after the repairs, you could take out most of your money that you put down when you  refinance.