If you're not earning in a tax free environment, the double whammy of taxes and inflation will eat your gains alive.

The IPF is an innovative rider that individuals and their financial advisors have been looking for during this low interest rate environment.

Although I do want to create an environment for newer investors to come into the scene and not be given a sales pitch.

The intent is to get them to stop and/or explain why you won't renew the lease, eviction is probably not worth it.Regardless you will have more work to do after they move out to make your unit appear/be non-smoking again, so plan on extra time.Have strong language in the lease.Our rental agreement: Smoking Policy: The Premise is to remain a smoke free environment.

The deals are harder to find on SFH's right now, but I feel we have only one more year of decent RE environment before this cools down in 2020.

Houston and Dallas have this type of environment vs cities where people are born and raised their entire life.

Firstly: Holding each property in a separate LLC is the optimum arrangement, assuming a clinical environment where everything is done correctly at all times.That having been said, most real estate investors don't operate in a clinical environment.

Is it the landlord "letting their tenants live" this way or is it the low-life, unresponsible tenants that create their environment?

Owner will claim it’s tenant responsibility to maintain a normal living environment.

But generally speaking the younger you are and the higher rate of return you expect on your investment the more sense it would make to convert to Roth (your money can grow faster and longer in tax-free environment).