(You won’t get the ongoing tax break and you’ll be selling or paying the taxes to cash out.)You convert capital gains income in to regular income. 

However, once i hit my goal and preparing to break ground on new construction, having a plan seems to help me better than shooting from the hip.

I thought the guy was going to give me a break since I used him so many times and he told my wife that it wouldn’t be much.  23K is a lot of money if you didn’t agree to that price.  

Like I said she pushes the boundaries but doesn’t break laws so it’s been hard to get rid of her. 

SarahI’m gonna give a slightly different answer than others, figure out where/how you want to live within reason & than figure out a way to use strategies to make that somewhat affordable but using a strategy 1st approach is really risky in this market, because it might take 4-5 years to even break even vs renting, so you want to find a place you’d be happy to live for 4-5 years & than find strategies like house hacking that make that more affordable. 

If they are high maintenance, you can also have a talk with them along the lines of if they aren't happy there, they are welcome to give 30 days' notice and not pay the penalty for breaking the lease. 

Let me break down the title experience and what I learned. 

Even if you break even you learned and can move on from it. 

Multiple residential rental projects have recently completed on the street with others either in progress or about to break ground.

. $5,000 was not an amount of money they readily had, and they requested I allow them a couple of months to gather the funds so their kids could have a Christmas.