I read it anyway (what do college professors know anyhow) and learned later in my career that many executive training programs use the book as one of their regular sources.

Hi @Jeremy Howard as @Dan Barli mentioned knowing what type of investing you would like to do would be helpful.

@Howard Pritchett Hey Howard, first off it’s good to see someone not too far from where I’m at.

My husband is an executive at a Fortune 200 company and our reason for the study is to offset his W-2 taxes.Any additional pros or cons to doing the study?

There are 16 executive suites.

Sure it's possible if you have significant starting capital, an amazing deal, a great team and a well executed strategy.

If you wanted to execute a 1031, you'd have needed to initiate it and get a Qualified Intermediary on your team before you sold... but if this is a vacation home that you use for personal use, and not as a rental investment, a 1031 wouldn't have helped you anyway. 1031s are only for the exchange of like-kind long-term investment property (ie not flips and not your lake house you use 3 weeks a year)I am not familiar with the Opportunity Zone tax benefit mentioned above, though I am about to go check it out! 

Do you or your partners have any asset management or some equivalent project management experience that shows you guys have a track record of developing and executing a plan? 

If so, does he plan on raising that renovation money (plus reserves) upfront or does he plann to execute the business plan out of the property’s cashflow?)

The key is what can you do to the property to execute the business plan that will allow for greater performance?