It helps to have started when $15k got you $700/mo in rent.haha,Love you to mate.If James was "over sexed" he would have less of an "urge" to bombard us with so many key-words.I hate to love him 😘10+ years ago we got 1 Toledo keyword every other week.Not it's almost 10 per day.Happy for Toledo and always has a special place in my heart.Yeah mate, those $15,000 deals are just a dream now but we had a 10+ year run so can't complain.Cheers to another 10 years and keep being great 🙏 I'm still buying, hell I am still filing tax value appeals so they are below the friggin value there. 

Private lending is passive but in terms of taxes "ordinary income" and you cannot cancel out with passive losses that you get when you are an equity holder of real estate. 

I have no problem keeping it down, I just would also like to live in the apartment as well, not feel like I have to tip toe around, if that makes sense.

What I do for my off-market deals is scrape the tax record for all LLC's that bought like-property purchases and then trace their name/number and establish relationships with them and bring them deals.

The kids will get a step up in tax basis at that time and will be likely able to get the full benefit of the portfolio tax free.

What will your combined W2 income be after taxes when you get married?

Interest rate and insurance cost in Houston will make house hack harder now but it is not entirely impossible. for particular Indepdent Height, arces homes, and highland height is a great area that is growing in my opinion. 77021 near medical center has some really nice streetLook for home that has garage apartment, duplex or big land to put up additional structure later on. look for area with low tax rate and no HOA. plenty of them around

Way too much liability and risk out there.You can't purchase a residential property in a new LLC in NJ unless you have two years of tax returns on the entity or a relationship with a local bank who will allow it.

I've most often seen it with sellers who aren't interested in doing a 1031 and they save some on taxes, earn interest, have a swtream of payments, but no obligation to operations/maintenance. 10 years or less is likely.

I like Nevada because it's close to CA, low property taxes, landlord friendly and has strong tech and manufacturing job growth.