I have a passion for helping others to create, find, and take advantage of opportunities to buy a house due in large part to my own experience.

I agree with Bruce that GC can often get better prices than an individual, however, if you are doing multiple deals you will be able to get great prices as well.

Middle school dances and starting a business…In many ways, creating a business is really like attending your first middle school dance.

I’m a local contractor new to investing, I created a partnership with my wife’s father and we are about to close on our first multi family with a conventional owner occupied loan in my father in laws name.

There is a very good chance they will create bigger headaches in the future.Seriously, why can't they teach their children to not play with the windows?!?

It's hard to create a business in this if you don't have the intel to do it yourself.

Because if it costs you $2K to $3K, it should give you ~4x in that in tax savings, or $8-$12K which is not happening).It's important to understand that a CSS doesn't create additional depreciation but rather accelerates existing depreciation.

You live in one room, you rent the other 3-4br separately to individuals.

It's fantastic to see your enthusiasm for diving into the real estate industry and connecting with like-minded individuals.

If you want to switch from joint tenancy to tenancy in common, a real estate attorney can help create a new deed with the desired ownership percentages.