And they just increased their rental limits to try and keep pace with cash tenants, so if Section 8 is part of your strategy, now is a great time.

The city has issued licenses, they are just very limited, hard to get, and there are a lot of restrictions around how it can be used. 

It's probably the best way to get started and learn what it's like to own properties while gaining equity and limiting your living expenses.

Say you position in great locations where the experience is highly sought and highly valued with limited offerings.

You can really pick where you want to be on the "comfortability to profitability" scale here where I felt like those options in most markets were limited. 3) it's a great place to live all-around.

Your credit limit on an unused card will not generally affect your scores.

First - you have to mention what the syndication will do as that will have an impact on how you get taxed.Given that this is a real estate forum, it is assumed that you are investing in a syndication that will invest in real estate.Most real estate syndications purchase real estate in year 1 and have a plan of selling / exiting in year 5 or 7.Often times, the sponsor will get a cost segregation study which increases the loss on the K-1 presented to the investor in year 1.This may be important as it almost guarantees that there will be no taxable income from the syndication from year 1 to the year before exit.If the syndication does well and exits at a price more than purchase, it may result in a taxable income. 

I'm new here and I have spent a couple of years studying real estate investing strategies.

My view: As the 10 year rises, markets with inventory get even more inventory and markets with limited inventory get even less inventory. 

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