Meaning the report will show clean on the criminal side yet our buddy could have active warrants under his true SSN.

Don’t be stuck on the idea of going to college or not because you can buy a 4plex and rent it to your college buddies.

I'm nobody's dancing monkey lol. this reminds me of my 20 year high school ( Cupertino High)  reunion in the mid 90s  I was talking one of my old buddies who had moved out of state..

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Added depreciation is only useful if you hold the property long term, or only plan to use a 1031 exchange of the property.When you sell the property otherwise you must settle with the IRS on the depreciation recapture.Your description of doing BRRR's, suggest that this added depreciation method would do nothing for you.Cheers,Buddy

Many of the banks we were buying from were led by my old banking buddies.