The police ha"d been called repeatedly but had been able to do nothing because the bank refused to press charges.

As a long term rental you will be hard pressed to find properties that will cash flow in both areas without implementing a value add strategy.

If you had proof that it was intentional and not an accidental, the police have enough probable cause to make the arrest.

In a coastal city with so many protected lands and species and soils they make it illegal to bring in your own water tanks even- god forbid you accidentally poison the soil- you wouldn’t, but they use that as a possibility which is why they don’t grant you building even WITH your own water source).

It WILL NEVER be short term capital gain.The is the exception of the accidental flip or the it came across and I decided to sell it capital transaction.If you enter into an arrangement to flip a property it is business income.

--as Mike always tells it---"I kept coming to the PCREIA meetings to promote our electrical business & accidentally learning more and more about real estate investing at the events ---I don't know what happened,but at some point...

@Travis Petty you may be hard pressed to find a hard money lender to loan you funds without any of your money out of pocket.

Depending on the price point, you'll be hard pressed to find anything else that will cash flow elsewhere in Southwest Florida

Pressed, I share that I was born in El Salvador, and most tell me they are glad those kids are in cages at the border.

The data folks know how to 'load' the data (it's actually really easy to do), but use the same generalized data sets in many of the housing models that get national press for sales and predictions.