If your current tenant want's to lock you out, a regular lock (non-smart key) isn't going to stop them.

I don't want to put her off by asking to sign entire lease so early if that would make her think to keep waiting till the end as I would like to at least lock-in something.

Because the hobby loss rule was enacted specifically to address concerns about excess expenses deductions in farming, the hobby loss rule applies without exception to farm and forestry situations.My original example of the tree farm was specifically geared to demonstrate a legitimate business that would trigger the presumption under the hobby loss rule, but which could potentially justifiably rebut the presumption under the hobby loss rule....I think there was a disconnect somewhere along the way....

I would like to pull the trigger on a property this year.

Lock it up and flip it.

I have that building double locked.

The thing I don't get is this.A rehabber locks up a deal, super low and everyone is telling them "way to go!

Join clubs, activities, sororities, etc.As far as the mistakes, mine at the beginning (the mistakes do not end at the beginning by the way) were paying too much for buy and hold properties, not networking enough early on, waiting too long to pull the trigger on RE (took me 4 years from I want to do this to actually doing it), and biggest mistake at the start was a lack of focus on one strategy.

Didn't hold me back.You can take all the courses in the world and if you don't have the right temperament that you need to pull the trigger on a deal, then those courses won't matter.I've learned more by doing than I could have ever learned in school.

Assignment of contract clause with locked in agreed upon acquisition price of x.