Hi, I am just starting to look in to real estate as something to invest in outside of my current employment.  

BP has helped me with networking, answering questions about Real Estate, serving as a resource for building my knowledge base of different types of investing and informing me on common drawbacks of certain avenues of investing. 

And arguably, when the melting begins, flat roofs are less likely to have mass chunks of snow slide off... common among pitched roofs, and when it happens, gutters are often damaged or torn down and shrubbery and the like below, may also be damaged.

Before I talk specifically about Las Vegas, I want to establish a common understanding.

In my area there are MLS overlaps between numerous MLS's [which has been the subject of a lawsuit] as such you can occasionally find a prop. listed  on the "wrong" MLS which are listed on public sites such as Zillow etc. but not on the common MLS for that area.

The issue we find common is that the buyer wants to pay as little as possible and will utilize the agent to facilitate that.

Basically 1099s are used to report when you aren't paying payroll tax, but are "employing" someone.Hope that helps.

., one big issue is that using your model of "flipping" you will not be able to use the 1031 exchange so you need to put ordinary income tax + Self employment etc into your proformas to make sure you can still get the return you want.1031 exchanges are for property that has been held for "productive use in business trade or investment".  

I don't have a property in mind, but I would like to know if I could even qualify before doing the hard work of finding something and then getting a big denial.I've served and worked in restaurants for 3 years and same goes for my boyfriend (A little over 1 year at our current employer).

Since it was becoming winter and we needed to keep our workers employed, I told him that we needed a minimum of $10k profit.