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Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $350,000

Cash invested: $100,000

buy and hold, rental

What made you interested in investing in this type o...

This also makes me wonder if I should ever engage a broker when I want to sell my property in the future?

Learning to go through the cash-out re-finance process first hand was also wonderful!

There is obviously a formal lease, and we also supplement with a room mate agreement which outlines the more specific things like overnight guests and expectations in dispute resolutions/ cleaning/ care for the home and appliances, etc.I haven't received one formal "LL request" email yet, other than a formal 30 day notice in the event of a move out, which is usually after they've come talked to me in person about it to begin with. if there's an issue, it tends to be pretty limited to "hey, we have this shower rod falling off"... which im usually here to deal with (and tbh most of the time they like to fix it up with me), and it doesnt need to turn into a big thing. as for keys, i have the house on a yale smart lock, so 'handing over keys' is just official move out, walkthrough of the room for damages, and then I can delete their access code and access to the smart home systems without having to re-key the house. 

If I only receive the down payment this year (let's say 20%) can I write off the entire 250k towards that and structure future years to try to get in lower LTCG categories than all at once?

Also, ask if they have "future" land use maps. 

There not reality, go to your local RE meetup You will learn more in a few days then months and months of reading.

He's got stoic vibes in a real world writing tone.

Now I know a lot of people will say test prices which I plan on doing eventually but at the moment I am being aggressive on the remodeling / re investing side and since high season is only a few months a year in my area I dont want to miss out on revenue when I do not have to.