(You may want to talk to a local lawyer to ensure you are complying with local laws on this)This will have three effects, 1) it screws your unethical property owner  2) It protects your monies which you might get to keep after the foreclosure and 3) gives you leverage with the bank that is foreclosing.  

Bigger Pockets has an entire forum on 1031 exchanges...it might be good to ask that question there first.  

I want to get a clearer idea of what travel expenses I can write off, but I don't want to get into a gray area of risky tax practices, so here's my question: If I'm in town for a week, can I treat the first three days as a work trip and the rest as personal time, and write of the airfare and business costs with confidence that I'm not muddying the waters?

And export those into a list with a click of three or four buttons.

Always see the three reasons, one of which is going to be "too many credit inquiries" if the credit reporting agency is just making things up to comply with the rules.- If you have bruised or new credit, and three legit reasons exist, then those will appear, and "too many credit inquiries" may drop off.

@Joshua Tikal you can search the Bigger Pockets site for "Laramie" and find any posts or members that have mentioned it.

I'm learning how to work through the analysis on each with the Bigger Pockets calculator right now.

At the local meet several agents walk up to the group introduce themselves stating they have tape and are wholeseller, pocket listings when I notice their license number signaling they are brand new realtors with ZERO transactions that is the end of it.

This should be Landlording 101, but ...I've had this tenant for three years now.

And if I wait 2 years before selling the house, I will of had them pay off 24kSo when I sell the house I theoretically get 24k for free in my pocket.