You will need to qualify as "real estate professional to do so" Which simply put is spending 750 hours in a real property trade or business, and more time in that line of work then anything else.

Your insights on leveraging equity to speed up the journey to financial independence totally make sense.I'm also focusing on the Texas, Washington market, drawn in by the tax benefits and promising opportunities.

I'm not a tax professional.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

It cannot be successfully read by non-professionals.

Having gone through the process once, it's very clear how to keep growing for the next one :) Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Talk to a tax professional.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Here is the process I walk my clients through in Colorado Springs:Making the Listing Take professional photos!

People get paid $90k a year to do this professionally to make sure the little guy doesn't get seen.