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I am looking at my first real estate investment in the Clearwater Florida area 33756 zip code in Pinellas County.

I got interested in real estate investing last year and since then have read several of the BP published books on real estate.I still have a lot of unanswered questions floating in my head but my goal is to buy my first property and some point next year. 

He talks about how you can purchase a rental property, manage it as a short term rental during the year you acquire it, do a cost segregation study, use those "losses" to significantly reduce your taxable income that year, and then turn the property into a long term rental in the following year. 

Quote from @Spencer Dixon: I've already lined up a property to purchase in 2025 for roughly $450,000.

We are real estate investors and business owners from Grande Prairie Alberta.  

first thing one should do is figure out if they quality the 2  in  5 tax treatment and if the home has appreciated a ton like 250 to 500k which is very common in coastal markets and Denver for instance.. selling would be far smarter than renting. pocket the tax free and find another rental. turning it into a rental you lose that one time tax treatment which in my mind is the very best for real estate. 

I am new to the real estate investing and I am having a hard time with hard money lenders to lend money. 

I would mainly be finding deals for the investor, and taking a percentage of the purchase price as my fee.

My husband and I began our real estate journey as short-term rental (STR) cohosts.