This leaves friends/relatives wanting to help you out (emotional based investing) or people unsophisticated and naive (likely disciples of a currently heavily promoted guru).When I, or any other investors (with significant capital) I know of invest, either equity or debt), we only consider deals where (1) the “sponsor”, or borrower have a significant investment of their own capital, unless they’ve owned the property many years.  

But they are more stable because their share price is based on quarterly asset valuation which is not going to drop 40-50% in one month as the others did in March'20.  

I based this off of the number of new construction homes in state, how much vacant land, how much those things are selling and their availability, laws, among other things.

We are looking for an attorney based in Texas since our LLC is registered in LLC.

We have a 3-story apartment building and are having major water (rain) intrusion issues along the back wall of the building.

Are most lenders looking at my W-2 history and DTI to determine whether I qualify for the refinance or is it more based on the asset and/or its cash flow?

Based on your responses, the safest route to avoid FIRPTA tax is to do a simultaneous exchange.

You'll bring a downpayment based on the total project cost and you can get seller financing to help with some of the equity injection. 

So there are a few ways to look at this, the 1st question is are you sure your renovation’s will double the property value, most renovations on primary residences, your lucky to get 60-70% of the dollar cost back out upon sale, so really nail down your comps, than you have basically a math problem if your rate on your primary goes up how long if ever before that extra payment is more than 400k in taxes, that’s just a simple calculation to help you decide, but I suspect you actually have a different question here, from a purely financial perspective my guess is the best option is to do anything to avoid that tax hit, but one of the reasons to make money is to spend it on things that you enjoy, based on your overall financial picture and a subjective view of how much enjoyment you will get out of a renovated home, you should decide if you want to roll your profit into another deal or “cash-out” your winnings, I love cars and I’m willing to spend more than is fiscally smart on them because they bring me joy, there is nothing wrong with that, but i don’t think it’s a fiscally smart choice, without knowing your exact property id imagine a renovation would fall into that category, so that’s the terms I would use to decide.

I have the scope of work which totals around 80k, possibly more because I just found there is a water leak in the main line 😢I was wondering if I can fix the other units (total work ~20k-25k) and sell with the last unit still distressed.