It's very frustrating spending a ton of time and sharing experience only for someone to give it to their brother-in-law who's out of work and will do it cheaper.

Just to add to Wayne's comment.Over the four year holding period, the depreciation you took reduced your taxable rental income by $10K.  

If data was cheaper to come by in this industry, a lot could be done with it.If you're familiar with Python, this GitHub may be useful.

Not like the last deal, but not bad, being that we need a place to rent and we own for a little cheaper than what we would rent it for.

You will then compare the sales price to the adjusted basis to determine the taxable gain or loss.

I only provide a cheaper fridge and stove. 

It is 100% cheaper to hire an insulation company than to buy the material and do it yourself if there is at least a decent amount of area to cover.  

This is one of the oldest stories in the book... entrenched interests fighting technological advances that threaten them but offer most people more efficiency and better product for a cheaper price. 

They can take the capital gains exclusion of $500K (married filing joint), resulting in a taxable gain of $1.8M.

With a portfolio loan, then the bank would go up to about 60% of value for 5+ properties.So if an investor has 4 properties financed, owns others outright, financially it is cheaper to take out a high interest rate loan on one for a short amount of time than go through all the hopes of doing a larger loan.