Be sure to send your final report of return/retention of deposit in a timely fashion and absolutely before the deadline stated by law.These are the categories we use in our final Deposit/Move-out Report:Unpaid Rent, Unpaid Late Fees, Unpaid Lease Violation Fees, Unpaid Utilities, Moving & Disposal, Extra Cleaning, Missing Items, Damages, Professional Fees (such as legal or specialty services).Have you been charging her for damages as you discover them, or were you waiting until the end of tenancy.

This will add more equity to the deal but the loan terms are going to be less favorable.2.

For those of us who care, the safety side of investing is overwhelmingly in favor of real estate.

Compound interest and exponential growth favors starting young, so this is a great decision!

@Milton RiveraI think a better way to phrase my question would be do I only need to transfer the capitol gains to the next property or do I have to transfer both capitol gains and what I have paid back/downpayment from current home.Home cost = 165000I owe = 120000Therefore I have about 45k equity if thats how it works.I invest say 30000 into the home and sell it for 270000.In my eyes I see that I have capitol gains of about 75k (i understand all fees I paid are taken out from capitol gains in my favor but ignoring that this is what I am at ballpark)Now that means I should have about 150000 (270000 - 120000 mortgage) in my bank account after the sale (or in a 3rd party exchange account).

Black and white, from FannieMae.com...Trust me, no one is saving up 25% down over and over and over again for Bay Area price points the old fashioned way.

I would love to chat with anyone experienced who has explored this in any fashion or is doing it now.  

Property insurance in favor of lender. 

It wasn't handled in a timely fashion by the then PM administrator (she left since), so I got stuck with a vacant yet un-relinquished unit, and with an eviction moratorium. 

As I say to my four children whenever we are in parking lot, “Keep your eyes up and your head on a swivel.”What makes house hacking so attractive to owner occupant buyers is the ease of and number of options for favorable financing.