Even though you may have experience running a brush over a wall, there’s a huge difference in time and quality between a professional paint job and someone painting their own wall.

Finally, there will be federal taxes beyond beyond income tax, since you are considered running a business, you'll be liable for self-employment taxes related to the business income from your nightly rental business.The proposed legislation limits the total number of nights to 90 per year (for units that are not owner occupied, like a home).

I'm a software architect by day, and early mornings, evenings, and weekends I run a small commodity trading firm and am also a real estate investor.  

Tech firms don’t want traditional multiyear leases, and may not be able to honor the ones they do sign if the businesses fail or run out of money.

I'm only asking because I'd like to work on running the numbers but the pro-forma just doesn't show me all the information that I need for a proper analysis.

I was born and raised in southern CT and I think I have a good idea of what's what in the area and hope that will be an asset to me in local real estate.I currently work 9-5 as an engineer at a small design and consulting firm and I'm looking to enter into the real estate market on the side (for now!).

I am very capable in excel, having manually and mentally run the numbers of multifamily units listed online I have found that none of them come close to meeting the 1% rule.

I would run comps in the area to get an idea of his property is worth.

Also there is aluminum wires run to the main fuse box.

And will I run into any legal trouble doing this?