At this point I think you need to wait 6 months before asking him for money from his retirement account if the goal is to pay as little tax as possible. 

I think the sponsor still wants to tax a lot of short-term rentals that way too.)-- Everyone is already talking about amendments to the bill, including the sponsor.

In this specific example the borrower had 8 financed properties so he could not do a conventional cash out with fannie mae but a purchase from his scorporation is in "essence," a work around for a cash out since it returns funds to the scorporation and my borrower owned the company 100%.However, on a LLC its different since LLC's are typically taxed as flow through entities going down to your Schedule E on your tax returns.When I've asked my underwriters about the LLC purchase similar to the Scorporation above they typically state it would be considered a refinance and limited to rate term refinance or if we transfer it to your personal name we'd need to wait 6 full months.However, I have yet to try to purchase from a LLC that files tax as a 1120S or sub chapter S which Im currently waiting to guinea pig this concept to see if it works.

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@Joseph Taylor - consider ordinary income tax as an expense even if you are holding for more than a year you might be considered in the business and your real estate is inventory if the goal is to flip.

I assuming the terms of your "seller financing" will create effective installment payments that would trigger small amounts of tax as I see it.

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Instead of thinking of tax as something that drains your wallet, I like to think of it as a way to increase your cash flow.

TomThe homeowner already should be paying a higher tax as you just mentioned he does not live in the property.

Plan on spending 8% plus in order to sell and Montgomery County has a transfer tax as well.