In Amanda and Matt's book, Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor, they say if your home office is "your primary place of business" for real estate activities, then you can deduct it.

Even if you have a property in LLC, the activity would be reported on your personal return anyway, so LLC is doing no harm. 

@Paul LaSpinaA limited Partner in a Limited Partnership should be afforded limited liability(up to contributions to partnership).As a limited partner in an LP - you are not allowed to engage in the day to day activities of the limited partnership.

My 2 cents: That's not a function of the landlord being an active duty service member; that's a function of the landlord being a scumbag. 

***Licensing requirements:Owners of real property can perform all leasing activities for their property without needing real estate broker’s license.

It will definitely depend on figuring out what type of real estate you want to do in order for people to help you with ideas.The first question might be do you want to be a passive investor or a more active investor?

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Center State Bank and IBERIA are actively landing. 

How do you crunch those numbers to make those assessments? 

I can't seem to find any resources that help me understand whether the HOA steps into position after the primary mortgage or whether the super lien (6 months of assessments ahead of all other mortgages) will only get the HOA their 6 months of assessments and then the primary mortgage and HELOC will get everything else.