I would not invest out-of-state into 4 units to start.

I'm a product of BP through and through, was on these forums figuring out how to house hack after we already were in contract on a duplex, all the way through making it the foundation of my current business. 

If you buy a property as your primary residence and live in it for 2 years then rent it for up to 3 more (so you've still lived in it for 2 out of the 5 years prior to sale) you would get the entire 121 exemption tax free. 

No obligations to you.

Hi everyone,I’m new to the BiggerPockets community and looking to get into real estate investing.

Look at buying rental properties as the long term play in building wealth.

fair return methodology used must be “concerned with the financial integrity of the businessas a whole, not the ability to obtain a return on a discrete portion of the business.”MNOI presumes that the rents Landlords chose to charge, in a year free fromthe idea of rent control, provided Landlords a fair return on their investment,as the rents that were charged were based on general market conditions, andnot the upward pressure that policy discussions of rent control may have onthe market.

An uptick may be due to the decrease in bonus depreciation by 20% in the new year.

Hello Everyone, I am excited to be here!

To qualify for material participation, you generally need to meet either the 500-hour or 100-hour rule.