You will want to button that up because the interest deduction would fall on your 1040, and you would want it falling somewhere else on your tax return (schedule E, business return, or the like).  

Ideally for the best fannie/freddie the loan amount will be $1mm+.  

You just have to calculate that into your projections as a cost of doing business.I suppose, ideally, you could get your license and go through your own broker for the sales contract and legal support in purchasing your properties.

I deal with old plaster demo and asbestos etc, and today I ran out of masks.

Things come up as a landlord, and ideally you shouldn't be coming out of pocket to pay.

If we do sell and for a good profit, ideally we'd close after the 2 year mark to avoid capital gains tax. 

A house-hack deal would be ideal for a first investment as it will allow you to get your foot in the door with a low down payment.Best of luck to you moving forward!

When you offer yourself as a lender, there will be all sorts of people that will come up to you, but ideally you would get to know the person that you are lending to.

I am a small fish in my local pond yet I am approached weekly, often daily, via calls, texts, and emails from people who "live in an expensive market and have identified ______ as an ideal Long Distance investment location and will be buying ____(insert audacious number of homes here_____ in the next year." 

it's not ideal and a pretty ****** situation. with that said it was my very first property,  I sucked it up  and did what I had too.