The city of South Lake has a vacancy tax on the ballot for November and Stateline on the NV has a split commissioner board regarding STRs.

I’d recommend trying to decide which route you prefer after the original hard money loan because the amount of time to actually create my last LLC was much longer than I expected despite the company that was doing it saying they had like a 2 day setup.

I have no clue how sleep deprived I will be after baby comes!

The house needed around 30k worth of work and it appraised for 212k after renovation was completed.

You may pay $10,000 in interest but you only get back $2,000 back in tax savings. $2,000 is just a random number, the exact number depends on your overall tax situation.Building an ADU if you plan to rent it is business interest, not personal interest.

After several years investing as an accredited investor, I’m moving to building my own portfolio of SFH and small multi-family that I control and add tax and passive income benefits for additional investing.

Auctions are every Tuesday and Thursday in DuPage jail building and day before after 3 PM you can see asking prices.Here is the link:http://www.dupagesheriff.org/CivilProcess/497/

Is there any guidance on how to save the taxes?

I agree with your thesis...deal flow IS real estate investing.Baseball is good training for REI...takes discipline and persistence after adversity. 

It currently is tenant occupied until October 2024 and after they move out I plan to use as a short term rental.