You need to find a good property management company, which will also act as your Realtor, to find good investment properties.All of my clients are from out-of-state, including a couple who are international.

The lease of the ground floor is on internal repairing and insuring terms.

There will always be losers in any legislation change.

@Brian Ulrich probably best to claim the correct amount per the Internal Revenue Code - which is the lower of FMV or your adjusted basis.

Shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, care for the sick, support our international missions that much more?  

Venting outside is International Building Code.Buy a roof vent with a flashing shroud, backdraft damper, and flexible duct.

@Ashish Acharya was right on in bring the sources from the Internal Revenue Code. 

I had this internal debate, or got stuck in sort of an analysis-paralysis mode, for years...until I stumbled across Keith Weinhold’s Get Rich Education (GRE) podcast at the beginning of 2017.Here was someone who, like me, didn’t want to spend time managing tenants and admitted that he was not very handy at all, yet he was financially free after a period of about 15 years of real estate investing and the best part was he did so passively.  

So there is a concept Internal Rate of Return, which tracks all cash flows.

I am a pharmacist originally from Iowa and she is an accounting professor originally from Korea and will be starting a new job at Florida International University this fall.