The whole Lady bird/FHA thing can have some hiccups and going FHA for your parent’s home will cause issues with you getting the next FHA home.Instead do a gift of Equity going Fannie Mae 5% down (use the gift of equity) to cover and for any closing costs.

If it is a duplex and silent on the issue and you offered it to this tenant gratis your state law may say something about it.

Some people say multi families are harder to sell than single family houses because the buyer pool isn’t as big but I keep my properties in tip top condition and I just don’t see that as being an issue.

However the property is still under my name, Do I have to report taxes for the SM LLC (which has its own EIN) that technically has no income?

No pets means no pets.I usually explain to the tenants that it is an insurance issue.

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Property purchased late 2018, so seasoning is not an issue. yes renovations were done sone time ago.The lender is involved in BP, so I’ll leave it at that.

Do the math, pay taxes now on a small amount or pay taxes later on a larger amount, it really doesn't matter - this is very true when making the Roth Conversion decision and is pretty close on distributions.The issue is the penalty! 

Only issue is if you want to go larger size buildings there is not much.

The issue I'm having though is that I don't own the land, am not leasing the land (dock lease), and am not a general contractor.