In those cases, the main criteria we add to our lease is that everyone that comes to stay there must be subject to a background check paid by the company.

Say you paid 100k 6 years ago and have done nothing to improve the property value.

Role-playing.     . you paid $300k 10 years ago, it’s worth $660k, (so when you sell you net $600k to make math easy.)and your cpa determined that you owned zero land, so it’s all depreciatable. you owe 15% on the $300k gain plus 25% tax on $109k depreciation recapture, so you owe $70k in federal taxes, then California reaches out for another $30k?  

A nearby city with a lot of highly paid engineers.

Account Closed You can do automated lead generation in several ways, depending on whether you're looking for seller leads, buyer leads or private lender leads.Seller Leads: (1) Lead Swiper (online lead search with dozens of targeted searches), (2) Instant Leads -- direct access to listed properties nationwide with a click (3) OfferBot, automated offer making software (I use this every day) (4) Direct Mail Connect (upload your own list or use lists out of Freedomsoft) -- my team manages a ton of direct mail in my real estate business using this, (5) SMS lead generation (I use this every day)...and that's just scratching the surface.Buyer Leads: (1) Nationwide Cash Buyer database (millions of buyer records at the click of a mouse) -- including buyer name, address and all property addresses they've bought including closing dates and prices paid

If you don’t pay the tax when you transfer the stock to them they’re going to owe the taxes on your gain and you haven’t really “paid them back”. 

@Heather McNicol I’ve paid for 2 mentorship courses thinking they’d help me get to the next level only to realize I’d wasted my money on both of them to the tune of about $12,000 all told that I could have used as a partial down payment on my next property.

closing cost are paid out of escrow at the time of closing not in advance other than maybe an appraisl paid to 3p and a small app fee like 50 to 200 bucks  like Lending home.. which is real.

People carry too much debt and even if the debt was forgiven or paid off, incomes don't match affordability. 

I explained to the landlord what my business plan was, and paid him a set rent amount each month (though slightly higher than market rate rent).