Either option is good but they both have pros/consNEW BUILD - You'll have all those warranties, 1 year, 2 year, 10 yearEXISTING HOME - You might have more freedom for what you can do with the house, no HOA & larger backyardA lot of new builds are offering interest rate buy downs that are lower than the regular market right now.  

And if you're losing money, you'd get that writeoff against your regular income plus the depreciation writeoff.Still, I'd find better areas where even if you paid retail or say 10% under retail, you can do a little better than lose 1k a month.

Plus a regular home will have established value and appreciation while a container home will be hard to comp.

My realtor isn't showing me anything that isn't on the regular residential MLS and she doesn't really add any value to these larger deals. 

I have not read the Virginia law on this, but we fund deals for wholesalers in Virginia regularly, so to the best of my knowledge there are no rules requiring a real estate license to do a same day back to back closing.

If your regular depreciation is not enough to erase all of your net income, cost segregation can do the trick.

(I don’t know if a regular warranty company would use this as a reason not to cover you as well, especially if the repair was expensive.)

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I am looking at a prospective out of state long distance deal that has been difficult to obtain lending on as there is both a regular home and mobile home on the same property and the mobile home causes the potential investment to not meet conventional guidelines and therefore not even DSCR loans are an option.

This is just a general spreadsheet for calculating capex, regular expenses, vacancy, etc.