- How can I avoid tax?

The housing market in our city is extremely competitive right now....This is the first offer we have managed to get accepted and we somehow beat out 5 other offers so we don't want to back out of our current contract if we can avoid it. 

The only way to avoid ordinary income is to hold them as rentals.

Vacancy costs are what will kill me though, so my hope is to avoid this.

But if you avoided an investment property in order to get an FHA in CA later, you're essentially *not* investing and getting those returns just so you can make an 'investment' later that is going to lose you money too.

I'm a new investor and am trying to avoid wasting any of my capital on title services until I'm sure about the deal.

I intentionally avoid investing in any multi unit that does not have all separate utilities.

I was hoping to avoid the $800 fees every year.

Typically they want 20% down to avoid PMI and have a rate around 5%.

I wanted to hear some stories of challenges people have faced who have already invested out of state or out of the country before so I can know what to avoid, what to look out for, and where to focus my energy.I am investing in mainly single-family homes and small multifamily (2plex-6plex) homes with long term tenants.Cheers!