He mentions numerous advantages of paying with cash.When you pay for a property and its repairs in cash, and then when you're ready to "refinance" though, what kind of loan are you going to get?

Make more money for the sellers and yourself with higher commissions.Gain a strong understanding of the contracts and the market place....maybe any agent from any brokerage can do that, but being in a large brokerage with 100s of agents and lots of data, perhaps can give you an advantage there too.   

One of those advantageous tax laws is bonus depreciation, also referred to as accelerated depreciation or first year depreciation.Bonus depreciation allows you to accelerate your depreciation by increasing the amount of depreciation that can be written off in the year that the asset is placed into service.

I'm just taking a guess, but if after your purchase the home, you deed it over to a trust, and your children are in that trust, then would the STR rules that you were able to take advantage of now also apply to everyone in the trust...including your children?

With every subsequent invoice, show the accumulated back rent AND late fees as they build up.Now, the tenants that actually are impacted by this will be made aware of what's expected of them...and, these are the tenants you can play nice with (if needed), when that time comes.This scares, and usually, and miraculously, fixes whatever the "problem" was that allowed them to take advantage of the situation.

It was explained that this is not illegal but just taking advantage of existing tax laws.

I have clients (and myself) producing great cash flow here in Denver every day using these strategies, plus that you get to take advantage of our strong appreciation!

I would recommend being patient and waiting for a more buyer advantageous time because on your first few investments you have a higher probability of making mistakes.

I've used Northpointe Bank and they have a lot of programs that you can take advantage of because you are house hacking.

What is the advantage, the hook, the reason I would choose a less experienced team?