Been reading numerous personal finance books and lurking BP for a few months now, but the savings are finally shaping up, so I've decided to take it more seriously :) I'm a recent college grad from the bay area who's been in industry for about 1-2 years now and I'm really interested in setting up a positive, reliable cashflow for myself to reach financial independence.

Can we Non Resident Aliens use Standard Deduction now, as it is the only one left and in theory it should group the old Personal Exemption?

As you can imagine, it is an awesome opportunity for me to binge read countless books and listen to an insane amount of podcasts in a very short amount of time, relatively speaking (8-10 hours a day can really knock out a good chunk of if not an entire book, perhaps two).

I believe that days on market has finally stretched a little as the summer is closing, but that's standard practice. 

I have been reading books and watching podcasts for the last few weeks.

Followed those up with some motivational/self help reads that aren’t focused on REI and now I’m onto more real estate specific like Long Distance REI and The Book on Rental Property Investing.

Don’t qualify a property by any other standard.

I look at:- Revenue/Profit by Channel to understand most valuable channel- Revenue/Profit By Month to understand seasonality- Booking Lead time to understand behaviours -- important to know to determine ideal time to drop prices- Days booked/month and average daily rate/monthI'll update if I start mining others

Rich  Rich- I am doing some research on quick books/stessa/ and rentastic as options to manage by income and expenses .

I have advertised on Craigslist ,face book, Letgo , 5 Mile.