I found this passage to be pretty damning://Begin QuoteIn my view, the American dream of striking it rich is merely a well-marketed fantasy that keeps the bottom 99.5% hoping for better and prevents social and political instability.

We just need the technology solution to catch up to the social problem.

It sounds like the HVAC and basement work are capital improvements and will need to be depreciated as others have said.I would add though that the temporary regulations that went into effect at the beginning of this year allow for disposal if a cost segregation is done to determine structural component basis.

It seems to me that a key component to long-term success in real estate investing is to have good intelligence-gathering abilities so you are in the right place at the right time.

I did not even get to the point were she asked for my social security number, income, nor did she check my credit.So BiggerPockets, is this the norm or do various lenders handle these issues differently?

A little rusty one computer - and have never done social networking *unless you can count e-mailing!!!

Redfin adds the real estate sales component to the mix and combines real estate search with real estate sales.

In the meantime I'm dealing with a property with continuing theft and vandalism and trying to keep it at my sale value, working with the county to do the necessary repair and abatement work to release the code compliance liens, getting IRS liens released, and trying to figure out if the tenant is crazy and needs a social worker.

AFAIK, there are two components in solo 401k deferral: a) salary deferral by the "employee" and b) profit sharing by the "employer".

I believe two types of quantitative models should be useful:(1) Factor models using linear regression;(2) Principal component analysis.I think the software is the easy part; the difficult part is to have a good data base.