Real estate can be a powerful way to achieve both tax benefits and cash flow, and there are many strategies to fit your goals.

There street has a majority of mixed use buildings.

Congrats - would you ever buy in this market for pure investment purposes or do you think its mostly just a good market for a owner-use vacation home?

Welcome to BP and best of luck investing Mitch!

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Any time you use a HELOC, you only want to use 50 percent of the available equity or less so if you can do that over time carefully, it will work.

Exclude up to $250K/$500K in gains.4️⃣ Home Office Deduction: Use part of your home for business?

And what kind of protection are you referring to?

You lost your job and are still jobless eight months later.