.- Owning a business allows you to write-off your cell phone, supplies, dining, mileage, car/truck, umbrella insurance, your CPA fee.- Your vacations and related expenses can be tax deductible too.- Your BP membership can be tax deductible too.  

Surely they should be able to advise and encourage local homeowners on how to develop their properties to benefit everyone in an area where there is a shortfall supply of housing.

We’ve found out that by adding square footage to existing houses in San Carlos, we can take advantage of this under-supplied market.

Also, there will be a STAR report which will provide average occupancy, average daily rate, revenue per available room, supply, demand, etc.

If you purchase "the book of rental property investing" by B Turner, he supplies just about every document you will need for purchases and tenant. he supplies a bonus section for private purchase.  

It is my personal belief that the general evening out in the market recently is at least somewhat due to the influx of luxury condos, as for the first time in years, supply for that market niche has come much closer to demand.

This is just the start, there are MANY more variables I consider before investing.I wish you the best.

Demand- is being being outstripped by the low supply of affordable (=< 200K) single family homes (lowest inventory in history).

I use a standard template that allows me to change variables such as tax, insurance, vacancy, maintenance, PM, price of house, down payment, etc. and basically it will calculate my pay down on the loan, cash on cash returns each month, total money out of pocket at close of deal, IRR, and annual gross and net cashflow.

It's available at Jon Don, a professional cleaning supply website.