Congrats - would you ever buy in this market for pure investment purposes or do you think its mostly just a good market for a owner-use vacation home?

I recommend you do a google search for "real estate seller financing" and educate yourself through some blogs, then have a conversation to see if the two of you can agree on terms that work for everyone.Be sure to use an attorney to draft the documents, not the same one the seller uses.

This is really a better question for your accountant first because it depends on what you are trying to offset.

As a custom builder for decades, I dealt with this way more than once, especially with new subs that had not worked for me before.Back in the old days we used to just go with a verbal ok, but in the last 20 years or so, it is imperative to have a written CO (even an email sent from the jobsite) from the Sub and then I would add 20-25% and submit a CO of my own to the customer.

This helped me get the max LTV on a high balance loan. 

But since MTR became popular especially in Vegas we just went to our broker who placed the tenant for a lease fee and its worked great.. its a nice way to go this MTR.. 

I am working through this structure with a number of clients right now from a tax perspective.I highly recommend Mark Fetzer at KKOS - I work with him often on these clients and he is set up to advise in Texas.

This allows you to postpone tax liability until you sell the new property without a subsequent exchange.2.

@Garrett Brown happy to have heard from someone that does this!

I’m curious about the different strategies agents are using to generate leads.