If you are sending qualified traffic to your site, and they bounce, you want to make sure that they remember why they visited your site in the first place.

My goal today: gain experience / knowledge / skills / network in the RE business. 

For heavily populated counties (which Orange County, CA definitely qualifies as), these are usually on the Web and free to look at. 

They spend money to get qualified leads (such as you) so the site is free for consumers.

Gaining knowledge and skills is always good.

Let's assume desirable neighborhood, close to public transportation, etc but no chance of ever qualifying for standard financing.  

@Dmitriy Fomichenko @George Blower @Bernard ReiszIs there an IRS regulation or tax court case that points to the requirement to get a qualified appraisal in advance of an in-kind distribution from a retirement plan? 

My problem with the 3rd (and easiest for the landlord) method is that could end up being quite a few people who don't have a chance of qualifying that end up paying a non-refundable background check etc fee. 

The main problem is PenFed allows applicants to own only three total properties (including primary) to qualify. 

@Manuel Naranjo As long as you didn't use the home sale gain exclusion on another property in the last 2 years, you should qualify for the full exclusion.IRC §121(b)(5)(C)(ii)(I) states that otherwise nonqualified (e.g., rental) use would not include any period after the last date that the property is used as the principal residence of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse, so it essentially doesn't matter that it was a rental from December 2014 - June 2017 for purposes of the home sale gain exclusion since the last date you lived in the property as your principal residence was before you rented it out.Depreciation recapture is another story.