I need to replace 4 doors but i cannot find a good deal anywhere my doorways are all 76 inches instead of 80 so buying a hollow core door and trimming it wont work and everyone is only offering custom cut which is running nearly $400 a door.

As of now, the IRS wont allow it.

do your market research......like here in Central indiana......absentee wont turn up a lot of opportunities because there are a lot of out of state investors here.....so that wouldnt work....so its subjective....

Minneapolis is going through some major issues and depending on the direction they go, it will suffer for many years.

My answer to all of these questions, with a few asterisks, is good news for those suffering from analysis paralysis...

Banks/Appraisers usually wont give value to the new addition or value it as a separate house.That's my experience anyway!

Nothing is officially on it yet since this deal wont happen for another 5 months.What I am wondering is should I get my agent involved?

From my experience, once they start doing something like this and suffer little consequences they will try to push the boundaries more and more and more. 

I'm facing a significant loss.I've looked everywhere on FEMA's website and it doesn't seem that there is much assistance available to rental property owners that suffered a loss in a presidential declared disaster; outside of a SBL loan.

Some will allow you to roll closing costs in, some wont.