This will help with your conversations.

I am interested in following discussion threads re matters involving disposition of rental and investment properties pursuant to divorce.Because of the possibility of beneficial section 1031 tax treatment, I wish to follow discussions about conversion of residential primary homeowner property in part or full to rental property and tax treatment upon sale after 2 years or longer.I frequently am asked to provide consultations on these subjects when involved with divorce financial analysis.

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This court hawking sounds very interesting and conversion should be very good with the level of targeting that is. 

So may be you can have open conversation with the tenant and explain to them what the current rates are with examples and tell them that since they are good tenants you will go a little less than market by 100 or 200 dollars.

I'm going to say that it depends what your goals are in seeking education.Cruising these forums, you'll see stories where people lost money because of what didn't know or didn't know to watch out for.At the same time, you'll find a pervasive and powerful bias against paid education.You'll want to decide for yourself which is the greatest expense: losing money on a deal (may or may not be deductible) or paying for education to help prevent losing money on your deals (deductible as a professional development expense).

Present conversation, I thought, juxtaposes passive investing and land-lording.

Hopefully I will come back a bit more conversational on REI :)Any words of wisdom for the newbie?

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