The more I'm reading about real estate investing, the more I'm thinking about reducing my 401k contributions to meet my employer match (reducing completely seems to be leaving money on the table) and diverting those funds to buy rental properties.

For example, if I wanted to put in new floors, new carpet, etc wouldn't these all count as expenses and I would get basically a 40% discount off these expenses(until I hit the 25k limit) since it would be reducing my taxes at my marginal rate.

Lenders will want to reduce the loan amount if you have excess amounts paid in, they will like to see available money applied to the deal in most cases.

Please take a look and first can you suggest how to market it so that I can get offers even if they are below asking so I can go back to the seller with that info in order to reduce the price.

Getting rid of the living space that was once a garage will reduce your ARV because you will be losing livable square footage.

I bought these from my trading portfolios and ROTH withdrawals.4) Good job, work in Software in San Francisco, but that also means my living expenses are high, probably reducible somewhat.5) A business that I own that throws off a little cash, but it's mostly a "professional hobby" type endeavor.

It's still in a higher crime area, but very close to the approaching border of drastically lower crime ratings by only a couple of blocks.The property itself has been reduced by more than 50% in 3 months.

If the option fee IS being credited toward the purchase, it simply reduces the amount of down payment they need, it does Not lower the purchase price.

In my area that only reduces the value of the house by $1,500 so no biggie, I'm in Florida remember :)The only contractor that came out to see it yesterday does not do repairs to the actual fireplace inside but can seal the chimney.

Meaning the lease amount is 700 a month but to get that for the area the security deposit was waived or reduced.