There are ways to eliminate surfaces that a child could bite such as capping the baseboards with a piece of half round.Since you are in Massachusetts if the home has National Grid or Eversource there are incentives to insulate the home through the Mass Save program.

Then you just received 8 years of appreciation, have half to 3/4 life left on all major components, have a tax portability you can utilize to move to your next property and do it all over again.

Hi,Was wondering how people go half on rental properties.

. $50 a unit and half a months rent if they find renters.

Shortly after passing the exam and acquiring a license, I'll be doing real estate work for the upper half of the next two decades until I finally get tired of it.

We're planning to exit our remaining 28 units and do something else the 2nd half of 2016.  

Of the 12 units, only 1 is owner occupied.We've had a crappy property management company for years and I wind up performing half the property management responsibilities.

Take a TSP loan to buy a long term buy and hold "you must live in a militery town so I know there's a bunch of E4s/E5s running around with a BAH check willing to drop that amount on a rental so you know your market is at least the local BAH amount" you pay the loan back from your base pay and you pay your self about a percent and a half on that loan while receiving rent from your property. 

Hello Michael,Maybe you can do something creative like holding half of his rent payment every month.This way he will have the down payment in 3, 6 or 12 months or whatever.  

That would be half the year....