I think if the industry as a whole was a little more honest with it self and with market participants you might not have as many waiting for something that is not likely to happen in the short term. if you need a house, you need a house. but, if you think something will change in 6 months you might be able to hold on, but if it likely will not change in the near term you might just bite the bullet and buy. 

Brian Davis: @Eric LoweThere's a company called Rental Property Refund that does cost segregation studies virtually, based on self-reported data from you.

Your landlord is both not too swift, and is also self-managing a $3000+/month rental.

I am going to continue educating my self while I get enough for the DP and other expenses.

We pivoted to self-storage a few years ago.

If you just handled it on your own/contractor self-mitigation, you would need to have some proof it was handled.

While I don’t suggest that the smaller type investor purchase and utilize “exotic” vehicles like foreign asset protection trusts, family limited partnerships with outside controls, or Byzantine or convoluted maze of ownership entities, the more simple strategies of using Series LLCs, self directed retirement plans, and paying off their home mortgage to the extent of the Federal BK homestead exemptions can insure that a plaintiff attorney never even considers going after them.  

@Sherry TsaiIf you choose to self manage, it would be the one closest to where you live.

Now I own and self manage 29 SFR and find it to be easy.

With management or attempting OOS self-managing?