We use BDX to promote some of our communities.

Veronica, my guide is "You Make Your Money When You Buy, A guide for Real Estate Investors to Establish Their Maximum Offer" The guide is geared toward fix and flip investors but if you purchase it, you get a link to a free guide for buy and hold investors entitled "You Make Your Money When You Sell", I'm holding a promotion over the 4th of July weekend and the book will be free on Amazon that weekend.Tamara

Seems like will came on BP yesterday to promote his new platform auctiontumbler.com.

Such investment promotions like this involve great risk.

My wife is being considered for a promotion in 60 days so that would be a great help to our bottom line and we are getting the discipline now so that when the day comes, the increased income won't result in increased spending as has been our M.O. for the last ten years.

They're currently having a promotional rate for 2.99% for the first 12 months. 

BP Forum is not the place to promote "Real Property Management."

This would factor in a different potential spread for considering what I would promote renovation costs to be.

More Consumer banks are offering mortgages with lower down payments (I heard Wells Fargo is promoting a 5% downpayment for primary residence home mortgages) so you can check with your bank to see if they'll offer similar options.

The Courts have come up with their top fifteen items that they look for in determining the status: Taxpayer's purpose for acquiring, holding and selling the propertyNumber, frequency and continuity of salesDuration of ownershipTime and effort expended by the taxpayer in promoting salesTaxpayer's use of brokersExtent of improvements and subdivision made to facilitate salesOrdinary business of the taxpayerExtent and value of the taxpayer's real estate holdingsExtent and nature of the transactions involvedAmount of income from sales as compared with the taxpayer's other sources of incomeTaxpayer's desire to liquidate landholdings unexpectedly obtainedTaxpayer's overall reluctance to sell the propertyAmount of advertisingUse of a business office for salesTaxpayer's control over any sales representativesOf these, the most important issue appears to be the number, frequency, and continuity of sales.