I'm curious if there's the potential to instead use the money to go towards the purchase of investment property, cost segmentation, and accelerated depreciation vs. just eating the tax bill.

Same with what they want to drive or eat.

Once you do more creative financing you'll be able to buy properties with none of your own money down and pay less of the compounding interest that eats away your cashflow less as you pay the properties off and have les debt to pay interest on.

@Natalie Schanne Yes, very good point — the vacancies are definitely eating into my overall profit.

Third, you should be screening the animal to ensure it's fixed, at least one year old, current on vaccinations, and have a picture on file so the tenant can't pull a swap.I recently started charging an automatic, non-refundable $300 fee for every cat because of the increased risk.

You can make it clear in the advertisement that you do not allow any dangerous breed animals at the property, a max of one animal period, no smoking of any kind, no drug use allowed.

The second thing I look at in my state where the only real tax we have to fund everything is property taxes is the property taxes on the house as they can vary as much as $3,000-$4,000 for houses in the same price range and that can definitely eat up your cash flow.

I missed it and its transportation department not  HUD but I think its a significant development around formalizing procedures around emotional support animal : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/1...Never underestimate how long it takes departments to talk to each other, but now there is a precedent...I scanned it and it seems fair.

@Sanjay SharmaIt's not like going out with a vegetarian: I'll eat your steak, and you can indulge on my broccoli.

Also, try not to “eat” your profits so you have more available for the next one!