One day, my sister needed a place to stay so I agreed to buy something for her and charge her a very very modest rent, but that fell through. 

Then there’s the conundrum of any mass-produced product: the consumer.

What I am looking for is clarification on how those passive losses and passive gains 'offset each other' BEFORE they go to your personal tax return.What I mean is this; let's assume I have a few rentals that I bought recently with modest down payments and maybe even did a Cost Segregation Study on one so with depreciation figured in those are going to give me a passive loss of 50K.

None-the-less I consume everything I can get my hands on in order to do the best I can as I embark on this journey. 

I have managed to hoard enough cash to outright buy a modest single family home that I would like to rehab and rent out.

The land is in Autaugaville county...what would you suggest my sister and brothers do with 30 or more acres of land ...that is not near the highway, nor a neighbor hood...and people in the area have a modest income.

If you plan on selling them down the road I believe it would be best to keep them separate, as if you were to get one loan on all of them, selling one at a time would be much more costly and time consuming, however, if you are going to get 8 residential loans you will have to be able to debt service for all of the loans.

Beyond that, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will come out on Wednesday (3/10).

I’ve been consuming them right and left since… Where I am currently at is: The Richest Man in Babylon – George S.

The data and calculators will tell you one story but the consumers may give you a different perception.