Nope, if they don’t show on your tax return, and it’s your 1st rental or multiple, you get to count the rents from day one.

This makes the rating system pretty useless from a customers prospective and a cause of great anxiety from a host perspective. 

I made cold calls and made a couple of appointments.First one : a 15 unit (some just are rooms for rent) and multiple apartments. 

Again, to be clear, I am not coming at this from a strictly business perspective of getting highest COCR, cash flow, etc.

But I doubt this is the case from the sounds of it.I have purchased properties before where there were incredibly complex title searches, where multiple estates were involved, heirs died without a will, hand written deeds in the chain with incorrect or incomplete legal descriptions, etc. - and in instances like these, I've paid the closing attorney upwards of $1k - $2k just for his fee alone.

If no pictures, no video, multiple ways to contact,etc. then an investor can have more questions then answers.    

First time flooded homes are different than multiple flood homes so you REALLY need to know the areas where folks are fleeing and where they are rebuilding and returning. 

The margins now were a bit too tight to make it work as a flip. but the deal still made sense from a buy and hold perspective.

If you could find a property that is multiple units or better yet has a garage apartment you’d be set.

These are just my thoughts, hoping to give you note perspective.