You were not some prospect someone sent a DMM mailer to that may, maybe eventually perhaps be ready for ice cream in the near future.

Most of my folks shave off 10-20% in taxes their first year even without REPS real estate professional status.Taxable Brokerage Account: Not recommended, put into Alts.2.

We use a cream called "Honeymilk". 

thats what we call a cream puff loan  I assume they are putting 200k in cash down ??

Quote from @Jeff S.: Have followed your story @Andrew Syrios packing up and leaving Portland.

I can see another 5, maybe 7 percent shaved off the median home income.

I should add that if we were to build replicas of the same 4500 sq ft house over and over then I would be willing to say we could shave time off the build. 

@Alexander Merritt   IMHO low end rentals are only suitable for local investors that are in the landlord business and are going to scale up and own as many as they can get 100's have your own PM and maintenance and that's the ONLY way in my mind that stuff will work over any amount of time.buy the best that you can if your just starting out.

Quote from @Joe S.: Have you ever noticed that people can send you a picture of themselves and then when you see them in person you think they look a way different?

Also, for the same reason there are 20 different restaurants that fry chicken differently, or places to get ice cream, or cars to drive, or churches to attend.