hard money lender?

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

How does that compare with flipping? 

What’s the lowest hard money Lenders lend with SFR/Duplex properties in Akron? 

@Benton PruittThe original lender should provide a short sale approval letter noting as long as they get x at closing…The second lien holder will be more problematic.

I want to form an LLC for it to protect myself, and have been reading about how California residents have very specific laws compared to other states.

. $10k in losses will reduce the federal tax due by $1.5-2k.However, the state tax due gets lowered by a very small amount by using passive losses to offset passive income as I assume state tax rate is quite low (I live in TX, so never worried about state tax) compared to long-term capital gains rate of 15-20%.

Don’t forget, we are hard money lenders, so we are used to financing borrowers who aren’t necessarily strong.  

Has anyone recently used a lender that lends based on the rental income of a property?

Those algorithms compare homes based on general location, size, # of beds/baths, age, etc.