It would be a straight rental property to buy and hold.

C) Straight up cash for keys at an offer she cannot refuse?

While a residential property normally gets a strain-line depreciation over 27.5 years, a 1250 property has a straight-line depreciation that lasts for 39 years.With cost segregation, you can depreciate interior and exterior parts of your property over 5, 7 or 15 years.

If you can share any of the videos we created that can be found on you Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast You Tube page that would be awesome. 

So your “we buy houses” postcard or letter most likely goes straight into the trash or you may get a voicemail telling you to never mail them again.There are many different lists that you could potentially mail to, but the one talked about the most, and probably used by every new user of direct mail first, is Absentee Owners.The key to creating a strong direct mailing list is to source the leads not everyone mails to.

I am trying to find a good option to either move into temporarily to get owner occupied rates, or to just straight up invest in.Recommendations?

Not sure if it’s bad practice, but I have about 25 questions to help me analyze properties and I feel like every agent I’ve come across has been reluctant to put in the work to help me with simple straight forward answers. i.e. historical vacancy %, NOI, operating expenses, etc.

I would have a conversation with them and set the expectation straight or find another company. 

Hi @Anthony ZottoIf this is going to be a straight up investment property, there are lenders out there who don't care about personal income, DTI, or tax returns.

Did that money go straight to the home owner for the purchase of the house or what?