Sense of urgency with patience, a powerful combination. 2: Educate: listen to BP podcasts and any others you can find on real estate investing.

Combine that with house hacking/FHA loan and its pure gold. 

*ARV:  after rehab value**CLTV:  combined loan to value  I hope this helps!!! 

Can I "group" my flipping & rental activities such that I have now "materially participated" in the combined activity, allowing me to utilize the $100k in losses to turn my $150k self-employment income into $50k?

This calculation can take that expected growth and growth in cash flows combined into one metric to look at the investment.Personally, I don't really look at IRR because it is a highly manipulated metric.

By March we will both have around 10-15k that we are willing to combine to invest in a property.

If you are looking for a professional opinion, we are now a team with the combined goal of finding you a piece of property. 

It seems to me like I'm selling both of these figures and the number should be a combination of both, not either/or.  

I have found myself in a problem that I need help resolving. I am not complaining here, this is a good problem to have, but a problem none-the-less.
Background - Almost three years ago, two partners and I created S...

For closing, I also needed to get separate insurance policies for each side since they were single family homes.I am trying to figure out the best approach moving forward since I am just starting out and wanted to know if I can (or should) try to combine the insurance policy into a multi-family policy and if I should look into combining the mortgages to one loan on the property that I am currently living in.