Loved real estate investing and had analysis paralysis for 5 years before pulling the trigger finally in 2007 when I was able to get into the property with no money down.

Finally, a property manager who is responsible, reliable, and professional.Overall, the decision of who you work with is much more important compared to the township you choose to buy in.

@Kerry BairdMy understanding is that is ends up being living in the house 2 years out of the last 15.Normally you have to do 2 out of the last 5 like you posted, but with the exemption you can move the start date of the "last five years", back 10 years if that makes sense.Here is a good military one source article on it. https://www.militaryonesource....The IRS publication also has examples that spell this out.I'm actually in the middle of this right now and waiting for my CPA to give me the final answer.I bought my place in 2013.

It's been a while since I posted on BP. and I finally have the time to go back in here =)Me and my wife are now hitting a crossroad in our lives and I feel to get some insights from you guys.Here is the situation:We have a 2bed/2bath condo here in the Bay Area (East Bay) that we currently live in.

After six months of him paying us 'RENT', keeping it 'safe' & doing a lot of rehab, the ex-owners finally signed off on the deed-in-lieu-of, (they tried to extort some cash from us to sign).

The original amount requested which was around 75% of my equity at prime +1 with no introductory rate, around 65% of my equity for prime + 0.5 with no introductory rate, and finally 50% of my equity for prime (currently 4.75%) and I'll get the intro rate of 3.99% for one year. 

Finally she told me a date Jan 14th shed be able to send the money.

I have been listening to BiggerPockets for YEARS and have finally decided to jump on board and find some really cool new people to connect with :).

I have been wanting to contribute to the forums for a while now, and I have finally come up with something that might help others.I heard about Propstream from Joe McCall's podcast (shout out to Joe and his great content!) 

The other option to avoid the eviction route, would be to offer cash for keys, which is still a costly route but can be done relatively quickly.My recommendation at this point would be to push close date to the next week and do your final walkthrough the morning of closing, that way you'll know with certainty if these tenants are still there or they've vacated.Good luck!