By the year 2020, taxes will settle to an overall rate which will be LOWER than what we've been paying in Hammond in the recent past.  

I saw criteria for this before that mentioned you can't have lower pricing on another platform than on HA/VRBO, not sure if this is still criteria.Thoughts?

In some cases, the share price can value the REIT 30% higher or lower than the actual value of the underlying real estate.Private real estate values don’t move much on a daily basis but rather appreciate slowly over time, which is why private investments are less volatile than their public counterparts.

I'm setting up two LLCs with one for the flips and one for the rental properties.The flips will be an S-Corp exactly as you said to try and make room for some of that income to be taxed at a lower level.Having the separate LLCs is necessary not only for legal protection, but to keep the accounting separate.

Buying as a primary residence gives you a lower interest rate, lower insurance and starts building up credit and home equity that you can borrow on later. 

The option to quit a job with a middling base salary, for example, and take a more commission based sales job with a lower base salary might become an opportunity instead of a risk.

Account ClosedWhen applying for a loan, lenders will use the lower score between the two.If your brother's credit and income is truly bad, it's not worth taking the risk.There are other considerations.

However the monthly payments are still considerably lower than what I can afford, and I am also largely financially independent at this point in life.I scrimped and saved til about age 37....now I spend pretty freely as even doing so I have much more coming in than going out.

Does anyone here have any experience with proerties in rough neighborhoods? They obviously have the cheapest housing, but obviously less desirable tenants for the most part. Wondering if the damage and late/no pay is ...

You will likely get a lot of high bids, but eventually you should come across someone that has a bid significantly lower than the average retail contractor and can show you examples of their work.