Passive income here I come 

I own a recently renovated duplex in the DTLA/Westlake area and I have been searching for a local property management company with experience in lower-income, multi-unit zoned neighborhoods.

I can add my mortgage, retirement accounts, income, bank accounts and credit card accounts.

Here is 3 scenarios: conservatively projected low/medium/ and scenario 3 is actual recent net returns  (unlikely repeatable right now) I'm looking for alternative ideas to deploy $150-200k down payment on a much larger investment than a 1br house, so I can play the appreciation game as well as the income game.

.$6,000 for strategizing supposing you have a monthly 30 minute phone call is $500 an hour.If the cost is $10,000, and your tax rate is 35%, they would have to decrease your taxable income by atleast $30,000 for the cost to justify the cost. 

For better or worse, either exiting tenant has the place cleaned or the incoming will do it (I never ask the incoming tenant, it just works it way into the conversation). 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

A good way to forecast rental demand is to also look at economic data from FRED - population growth over the past few years, median housing income, job growth, crime rate, schools, ethnicity mix, etc.

This will allow you to acquire more rental units and also being able to use the vacated unit rents at 75% to help your debt to income ratio DTI.There is a FHA 100 mile rule if you do plan on using FHA on your 2nd house hack.

Hey April, your CPA is correct in the sense that you can only write off passive income against other passive income.