Mostly DIY with specific trade professionals.My goal is to obtain cash flow to build up my portfolio and ultimately get time back from my W2 job.

For two years I’ve used Triple E property management services.

Hello everyone, I’m trying to figure out if you have rented out a property for two years but the first year you have the lease sign at the end of the year and only have like 3 or 4 months of rental income on the schedule E let’s say (2016) and the other year full rental income on the schedule E (2017), which technically that is two years but since it was at the end of the year it looks like it wasn’t a full year of rent.

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Purchase price: $276,000 Cash invested: $50,000 Sale price: $512,000https://www.redfin.com/AZ/Phoenix/3832-E-Waltann-Ln-85032/home/27493304What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Awesome plan and you're definitely going to need to be more granular to execute on this but you're on your way.

Short Term Rentals are great but it takes a significant amount of upfront work and cost to execute them properly. 

To report this, I fill out Schedule E which will show the total loss (negative value) which then transfers to 1040 Schedule 1, Part 1, Line 5 as negative.

That would have put me into an area where I wouldn't feel comfortable and I'd be trading the short term stress of 'shoulda could woulda' with the long term stress of 'am I gonna be able to make money on this?'

I like @Lynnette E. suggestion of buying a used (basic) fridge.