If you receive it as inheritance, you are considered to have acquired it for its market value of $100k, and you will only have capital gain tax on $40k.If you lived there all the time, then you don't care, because it will be tax-free either way.

I actually acquired my first property through (what I know now to be called) a lease agreement and subletting to tenants.

I've acquired a few properties and my major expense thus far has been A/C units "blowing hot air" and few hundred bucks later its fixed. 

Purchase price: $300,000 Cash invested: $2,300 Used a VA loan to acquire a rental property close to military bases and the local university.

I argue though if your intent is to acquire more property you can accelerate your money growth faster with a 30-year loan as you can take the cashflow and save it for another downpayment. 

But, it is written in the lease that all tenants must acquire renters insurance prior to move in.

Over the last few years of acquiring properties (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/790712-turned-30-own-12-units-generating-an-average-13-cap-rate) my lead traffic for vacant become a mess...

Does anyone have an recommendations on lending sources (bank and/or credit card) to help start rehab in two recently acquired properties?

exactly that's what i've been saying because otherwise if you were to attempt wholesaling you would have to ask others how they acquired there information if you ask me best to get it from the auctual source

One question i had after listening to one of the podcasts and reading about the importance of avoiding "breaking the coorperate vale"  is how does one protect their portfolio of rental properties that they've acquired using the house hack/fha loan method?