My bank has done a few “zero down, get me the $$ by lunch” deals, but I have quite a bit of business at the bank and have 7 figures sitting there with various business accounts.It kind of comes down to your banking relationship.

@Basit Siddiqi  thanks for you help especially in your busy season! 

BP's team has let me know that I may not attach full third party market reports due to my business phone number which appears on the market reports, so I have parsed some of the market data from them to include in this post along with data from the MLSwhich was pulled on 4/18/2024.

I think the confusion is between active business losses which can be deducted verses passive investment losses, which I believe must be carried forward, beyond a certain limit anyway.

To qualify as a real estate professional for tax purposes, you don’t have to own or work for real estate businesses or have a real estate license.

Thanks, the purpose is to make it a place of business. 

I would consider it unethical to charge a tenant for work that wasn't performed unless there is another stipulation.

I've been busy with a newborn so I kind of got lazy with a Home Depot quote.

I used all the money I made from a highschool business in ecommerce and selling basically everything I owned to rehab it. 

It is in a tiny little town similar to a  downtown district where you have alot of businesses with home sprinkled within.