Local government is landlord friendly and taxes and cost of living are lower.

If you property is in Detroit you setup a landlord account with the water company and any tenant that comes in opens a account in their name and follows them in your case it will be you and then a tax lien on the property they will get their money either way.

Tax benefits and low property taxes in NV still make "good" deals.

@Kenji TominagaIf the taxes have already been paid by the seller they are prorated as part of closing costsIf you are talking about escrow payment taxes then some appear to have missed them as you would be paying those

All tax attributes of the investment itself belong to the IRA.

This is so important to avoiding massive issues when you ultimately begin sitework.

They were mostly fix and flippers who worked with tax foreclosures and HOA foreclosuresI have recently been doing research on tax liens and tax deeds, since they seem like the most realistic way for me to started with real estate investing.

I don't know the numbers on your property, so I'll create a hypothetical:Assume your principal and interest on a $300k loan is $1,263.You're sitting on the potential to get $155k (tax free, btw), but the rate will be 7.5%, taking you're principal and interest to $2,100.Yes, it's $900/month more, but you have $155k of tax free money in the bank.

I am hoping this post will help those interested in the BRRRR investment strategy avoid this common trap.

More markets equals more time needed to track, meet with your team, travel to and from, tax season, etc.