How often do you find properties that have potential of cash flowing when doing analysis in your respective markets?

In addition, if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLC such as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a specialty trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.In addition, please note if you purchase debt-financed real estate with your IRA, unrelated debt finance income tax should apply to the income attributable to debt-financed real estate held by your IRA.

Said they were super quiet, respectful, etc. 

I thinking in Eugene and Salem i'm 5 and 7 respectively atm. and junction city, springfield, harrisburg, albany i'm 1 or 2.

After an additional 6 weeks working with him and attorneys, in a respectful/amicable manner, we finally were able to close.

I'm a rental scenario you get to take depreciation on the building, taking a small slice each year.If you start buying rentals and they produce losses, unless they qualify to be grouped with your retail activity, likely they'll be considered passive losses that you''ll be unable to use against your active retail income.In the end if you payed that much in tax, likely you made a respectable chunk of money (assuming all your expenses were correctly picked up), and the tax just comes due.

These markets were Dallas, Houston and Chicago, where prices in this segment dropped 2%, 1% and 0.4%, respectively.

Surprisingly several of their respective parents, including my wife & I, have always worked from home offices over the last 25-30 years!!!

So it showing year over year increases for four years of a whopping 13% appreciation in Seattle, a respectable 6ish% appreciation in LA and then dropping to about 1% appreciation for the final Jan 19 tally.   

I love the idea of buying homes and renting them by the room, but you had better be able to have serious House Rules and zero tolerance for breaking them because some tenants are just plain pigs and some tenants don't respect anything or anybody.