Your profile mentions that you are an agent with rentals.You would want to see if you are able to claim real estate professional status.If you are able to claim real estate professional status, you can potentially offset the rental losses with your real estate agent income.Furthermore, TN does not have a state income tax allowing you to be more open with your options.Best of luck

Places like Leander, Cedar Park, and Georgetown are seeing incredible infrastructure improvements and population spikes.

Any improvements that were done over the years had to be done to code of that year . 

Some banks and credit unions are more flexible, especially if you have a strong financial profile.

Because significantly less than 100% of your investment actually goes into purchasing or improving the property, and the property is purchased at retail value (or worse), your returns will badly lag any benchmark of direct property investment.  2.

I was typing this out from my profile page.

He enjoys the cash flow, has a good tenant screening process, and is OK with the tenant headaches that are going to occur.I would put it higher on the reward side of the profile, but it also is a higher amount of work and harder to scale endeavor.

Then focus on improving your interviewing skills to help you build a solid team on the ground wherever you do choose to invest.

We improve the kitchen and the patio but just because we live here.

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