Doing your homework, checking everything carefully, and planning well can help you avoid big mistakes.The best place to put your money depends on things like how the market is doing, what's happening in the economy, what you want to achieve, how much risk you can handle, and what you like.

Up to $69k annually double that with a spouseIf you have no plans on maintaining self employment activity and would rather go more passive then the SDIRA might make more sense. 

In order to compare them apples to apples, I'm planning to review them and also talk to the insurance agent of all three companies. 

IMO, if you loveee San Diego and you plan on staying long term, then buying into a solid house hack can be a big wealth builder for you and you will have a place to call your own in an awesome city.Good luck Orane! 

Proper tax planning involves diagnosing your situation the quantifying the strategy.

Could potentially be finished in a single day with a cooperative phone rep at the IRS, could take longer with an uncooperative one.Unlike normal tax preparation/planning however, form 2848 would require you to seek out someone with the EA or CPA certification specifically since the individual must be licensed to get the power of attorney status.

I know Asheville is in turmoil a bit over AirBNB but I don't plan on getting into city areas.

The current plan is to consider selling in a few years but hang onto the house for now (if I can find a good management company to take care of it).

We did not get an EIN since the plan was to form a joint LLC at the end of project completion.

Usually the programs are only available on one unit properties such as single family residences, condos, planned unit development (PUD) and townhouses.