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As you know, Winter is definitely your money maker, with summer being a not so close second.

I had my tax guy open an LLC for me this spring, but don't know much about maintaining it.

For my first property, is it A: better to pay cash and see how it cash flows or always use loans and save money for down payment and other investments?

Cost segregation is a popular tax deferral strategy and there is often confusion as to the difference between bonus depreciation and reclassification.Bonus DepreciationBonus depreciation is a tax incentive that allows a business to immediately deduct a large percentage of the purchase price of eligible assets, such as washers and dryers, rather than write them off over the "useful life" of that asset.

Same goes for number of LLCs and what to fund them with, since bear in mind that CA tends to be more cumbersome and expensive to have LLCs than other states.California is generally more cumbersome than other states when it comes to taxes and filings.

You would still get the tax write offs, the depreciation, and the market appreciation.  

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My 21 year old son literally has worked 2 months at w2 in his life making very little money (at pet boarding place) but has over $200k from entrepreneur and side hustles that he has creatively recognized.   

I saved money on the labor cost by doing the work myself.