So it makes your rental income tax free- and potentially lets you use that loss to reduce your other income as well. 

Unless of course, the sellers are willing to fix it or reduce the price enough for me to fix it. 

If that is the case you might have to offer a price for the property that reduces base rent so that tenants can pay cam.Seller will not like all of this but it sounds like their fault for kicking the can down the road and not collecting for 4 years .No legal advice given.

No matter what floor you put down over concrete, it will expand and contract a lot. i had one project recently, i put down a floating floor and left 1/4" space all around, only for it to swell up enough that it buckled and i had to pull the shoe molding off and re cut  the floor even more so it could sit back down, that's how much it expanded. if the floor is in a basement make sure it is rated for below grade and can be used on top of concrete.

The VAFF is typically financed in your loan amount at close but there are strategies to remove the VAFF completely upon close if you want to reduce the financial impact of the higher cost of closing that the VAFF causes.Best,

It also reduces my exposure and time investment into each deal.

This ARV would mean I will come out less money than expected for this project.Now with a 175K ARV the HML was pretty much going to cover everything but they reduced the % on the loan to make sure I had some skin in the game especially being my first deal with them, I was fine with that. 

This will dramatically reduce the number of inquiries.I would take the ad down for a day or two, beef it up, and then try again.

Placed In Service Date = 5/2018.With bonus depreciation reducing starting in 2023, we would like to take advantage of 100% bonus depreciation in the 2022 tax year by running cost seg studies on 2 of our long-term rental properties.

I kept thinking about real estate and how I can reduce liabilities associated with investment properties.