Since your pretty new to investing, I would recommend spending a couple weeks going through the forums, articles, webinars and podcasts on this website.  

A lot of their subgroups claim they're "Unions"http://tenantstogether.org/campaigns/repeal-costa-...Costa Hawkins Ab 1506Recent article http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-Opinion/277956/editor...

Some of the articles "facts" are indeed bogus.

Never posted anything before this as I was just reading the articles, blogs, and listening to the podcast.

I certainly recognize there is room for disagreement, which is why this has always been a very contentious area of the law and why the IRS and Treasury have rewritten the regulations in this area numerous times providing a number of new safe harbors provisions (i.e., specifically to avoid fighting over this issue on audit).

I just read an article that said this is the hottest market in the country for rise in home values.

I've written lots of articles on turnkeys that talk about all different aspects of it- locations, due diligence, risks, property management, etc.

I just wrote a quick article on this for crowdfund insider: https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/03/97759-start-real-estate-crowdfunding-platform/

One of the biggerst problems is that my dad can take up to 15 years mortgage, and with my calculations for 200,000 mortgage (and 250,000-350,000 down payment) the monthly payments will be around 1500-1600 shekels, and with repair costs, vacancy, etc - the monthly payments will be around 1900 shekels.I started talking with real estate agents (which is hard enough for me, because I don't sound very serious in their opinion :)) and reading articles about the prices of real estate in israel - prices have increased about 150% in the last 8 years and have never been more expensive here.In summary, I don't know what to do.

Hi @Takako Smith, There are numerous issues discussed throughout this thread, so I will try to address each one of them.First, you cannot sell Relinquished Property and structure a 1031 exchange into new Replacement Property that you then rent back to yourself.