How do you approach a house you’re going to live in.We are getting ready to bid on a property that instead of renting we are thinking about living in for a few year (5-7).It will be a rental till my husband retires form the military (2 yr) and then may become a rental if we move on.The house is in a good location.The neighborhood is older, but the homes are being revived.

I finance my flips with a hard money lender that specializes in the rehab fix and flip space exclusively.  

Right now in the area I live in they are building new homes and selling then around 149,000.Plus this is a military area ,where they come and go every three to four years.

Scott The Book on Flipping Houses, The Book on Estimating ReHab Costs http://www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbookYou might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing.

Perhaps you can have a special rate for week-long parking and a special rate for month-long parking with in and out privileges if they were to get a sticker in their window or something along that line.  

Nothing special.

Scott The Book on Flipping Houses, The Book on Estimating ReHab Costs http://www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbookYou might consider Niche or Specialized Housing like student housing.

Chris,It took some time to get this set up but I had it done through a CPA in Cali who specializes in QRP's.

Specially when i have a great support from the forum.Mark Nolan - thanks a lot for a nice tip Mark :)James Wise - thank you James, i have narrowed down 10 cities in last couple of days and would like to narrow down to 2 mostly.

How about researching special programs targeted to those in public service, for example,http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?