You can also try looking for single family homes with guest houses and/or in-laws quarters.

Other states, if they have a transfer tax at all, do not impose it on wholesale assignments. 

For the B investment you just read your quarterly report.5.

Your passive loss could quickly turn into a profit and even require you to make quarterly tax payments to the IRS.

You might also consider a syndication deal where you invest your money, collect a quarterly (non accredited) or monthly (accredited) check and not worry about toilets, tenants or turn overs.

Or you could install one of those machines that gives quarters out for dollars in….

I still feel like tenants would prefer this method over using a coin operated machine because that doesn’t necessarily make anyone feel at home if every time they want to wash their clothes they have to remember their quarters.

I'm torn because I told myself I would stay out of other people's business and only focus on my own, but after paying my quarterly STR taxes to the city of Austin, I'm thinking twice.Austin is known for heavy STR regulation and a cumbersome, painful permitting process. 

I was looking around my area for good deals and found a vacant lot, about a quarter acre, in a decent neighborhood that seems like a good choice for building an investment property.

CA Hammers you ..so take a 500k purchase  and CA state sales tax at 8% that's 40k then the use tax.one reason why the HIGH end motor home industry is based here too.. no sales tax on 1 million dollar coachs but folks that have those know all the loop holes.