Receive cash: The remaining funds are paid to you as a lump sum.

You can use REPS through your wife to offset your 2024 W-2 income by combining your time for material participation and doing a cost segregation and bonus depreciation on the remaining rentals.

Can I do a HELOC on the remaining equity and use that to buy a second one with the cash I have from the refi?

One guru states, generally 90% of his students do NO business whatsoever and about 8% do one deal before quitting, with the remaining 2% doing "okay" to doing "well".

Hello, fellow RE family.I just completed my first flip in Sachse, TX (a suburb of Dallas) and only have a few final touches remaining, with the decision on SOD being a high priority.

If this happens again with the most recent report, it could indeed alter market expectations for the Fed's mid-term trajectory, potentially putting aggressive rate cuts back on the table.In the short term, though, the market reacts strongly to the initial data, and the Fed remains in a "higher for longer" stance regarding rates.

There is no real good substitute for a well drafted operating agreement, but if you are doing long term rentals in TX then the OA should remain mostly unchanged once you have a good one.

I would look more closely at the rate and PPP period if the fees remain the same from lender to lender.

If they remain to be difficult and unresponsive after providing proper notice and communication, then maybe it's time to give them a 30-day notice to terminate their tenancy so you can do the repairs needed for your property.

You could also consider seller financing, where you work out a deal with the sellers to pay off the remaining mortgage balance while securing the deed.All these options would help you avoid the risks of not holding title to the properties while also giving you access to the equity you've built.