I pulled the property tax assessments from Zillow and they are 11,800 and 16,000 respectively.

I'm only active in a few small pockets of Indy.

You need to clearly define your short and long term goals, before assessing if it makes sense to place your money into it.

It sounds from your description that it is.However, because you also do personal activities in the room (play games on your desktop), it doesn't sound like this would pass the "exclusive use" rule.Playing the games on your laptop in a different room would likely qualify the room as "exclusive use" as a home office.Also note that in the future if you take this deduction, there is a simplified method you can use to reduce the records you have to keep - just multiply the square footage of the office by $5 (if it is under 300 total square feet).

Being active-duty have a lot of challenges when investing, like most of us know, one of them being the trust. 

People that want to make the big move are actively looking for that information. 

Here is the quick and dirty; I am late cashing out an investor due to the fact that my account is currently frozen due to some red flags on how I was moving money in and out (newer account, a few failed closings, so monies came in and out of escrow, so the activity looks weird) The bank is doing some kind of anti money laundering investigation, which I am not worried about at all.

We are looking for active local groups in Tacoma/ Puyallup area to start meeting some people and learning about our local market.

But she lied on her application, provided fake credit report / maybe also paycheck, had multiple evictions in the past.. plus I have a sense she’s going to demand 2mth+ rent (legal fees are ~2/3 rent), and I won’t be able to get over it easily.Reading this thread should serve as an example to all readers of the importance of tenant screening; you don't want to learn this the hard way, in retrospect, as in this particular post.You have to use a trusted source for background reports for credit, eviction and criminal activity - no exceptions because if you use a report provided by the applicant it can easily be falsified.

I have been an active commercial broker in NYC with over 60M in sales and I'm also trying to invest throughout the Tri-State area.