We know you can qualify and you may have narrowed it down to, I like Fords. but we don't know if you want a truck, sports car, luxury or just to run around town.It would be helpful to know what you want to accomplish and how much time you want to put into it and what you expect out of it.Even curious as to why commercial.

Do you think he's dealing fairly with the people he's selling the homes to? I

Probably they will be able to. I

Note that the $100 _minimum_ I was referring to is "rent minus 50% expenses, minus mortgage".

Might there be a contact you could refer me to? I

What it comes down to is if you can honestly say at the end of the day you did EVERYTHING within your power to make that deal happen then its okay.

I also would not discount the rent due to higher heating costs UNLESS the market forced me to. I

I have a property management company manage the property due to I am currently assigned overseas.

I didn't follow RE at all back in the day so I don't have anything to compare the market to. I

thanks yall..i w as hoping yall would respond...not sure how i can grasp the backdoor method brandy alluded to..i still am trying to learn the beginning steps :)...hopefully by the end of this thread, i'll (and maybe a few others as well) will have a better understanding..thanks again for walking me through this..so let's say i had a solid year, and due to my AGI, i will be ineligible for the roth...what then??