There are plenty of tax strategies to implement to make your tax impact a wash.

We found some interesting design ideas being implemented by a modular home builder here locally. 

Stuff's on their site already, why not implement everything in the app?!

As for non-accredited investors, I don't think there will be any final decision and implementation on that until Q1 or Q2 2014.

There might have been policies and produces that have been recently implemented.

I think we will start seeing more of that as president Hillary implements her tax the rich plan to pay for free college tuition and free health care for the masses. 

Also, I found out from the attorney at the title company that the cloud on title they required me to implement at the county office could only be released by their "3rd party escrow" company (which they required you to use) that which the title attorney found was unlicensed and not really an escrow company despite having the word "escrow" in their company name.

I'm not extremely well-versed in STR investments, but the respective markets seem odd for implementing the strategy.

For 1-3 properties I implement with my clients the following:- Guesty for Hosts w/ Yale Lock Integration for PMS/Automated Locks- Pricelabs - dynamic pricing - Wordpress - Direct Booking Sites- Stripe - payment processing- Intellihost - Airbnb Data + Listing Optimization- Turno - cleaner management- Hostfully/Folio - Digital Guidebooks- Avail for mid-term (30+ day leases and screening)For 4+ Properties I Implement:- Hostfully for PMS- Remote Lock - for custom key codes- Pricelabs - dynamic pricing - Wordpress - Direct Booking Sites- Stripe - payment processing- Intellihost - Airbnb Data + Listing Optimization- Turno - cleaner management- Hostfully/Folio - Digital Guidebooks- Avail for mid-term (30+ day leases and screening)I would gladly participate in the article and let me know how I can assist! 

., etc.This being an example of the 2% rule being harder to achieve - is it the case the the 2% rule is a better and more conservative "rule of thumb".In other words, are intelligent investors more focused on meeting the 2% rather than the 50% because if you find a good SFR or duplex in a good neighborhood that satisfies the 2% rule - that is like the holy grail of rental investing.I understand these are guidelines, and I use both in my analysis - but is the 2% the more stringent and desirable of the two guideline rules?