Can anyone recommend an excellent general contractor who is experienced and competent in dealing with rehabbing fire damaged homes?  We've never actually rehabbed (we buy and hold), but we put in a bid for a fire-dama...

Companies like listsource.com (there are less expensive options) specialize in providing that data if I’m not mistaken.

At this point you can't offset passive real estate losses with other types of income(ordinary / portfolio).However, she likely is not paying tax on her real estate cash-flow which makes real estate a better alternative to stocks / bonds from an after-tax perspective.

My friends Ben and Phillip at Mom's House, specialize in these types of properties.  

While there are of course some benefits to a condo, the associations are able to raise your HOA fees any time they have a "need", may have to levy large "special assessments" in the event of large expenditures, and can even make sure that only a certain % of units in the community are not occupied by actual owners thereby making rentals difficult.

Before moving, we ReFi'd into a very specialized loan that allows us to access equity for 30 years, and pay down any balance very quickly. 

“In theory, a steep uptick in inflation would force the central bank to tighten policy by hiking interest rates or slowing the pace of bond purchases,” said Matthew Speakman, an economist with Zillow.

I'm in California so out-of-state is definitely my best option.I read some negative feedback about Roofstock (they do volume and automation vs. quality and real people) and read some good stuff about Rent 2 Retirement but I've tried to talk to them for 3 weeks now and they didn't show up to the calls scheduled using their system, so I feel like I'm in a dead-end with these two options.I was wondering if anyone knew about other companies or people who specialize in turnkey LTR properties?

My wife and I have a specialized 1st position line of credit on our property.

At the end of 2020 I purchased a restoration franchise called AdvantaClean that services from Chapel Hill to Fayetteville, Sanford to Dunn which amongst other things specializes in Mold, Water Damage, and Duct Cleaning.