Good morning everyone!!

@Brian Gibbons 1) Thanks for the book recommendation - I ordered it this morning both for myself to read and a couple of people I have been talking too about being Private Lenders/Investors. 2) In your scenario above (great breakdown of things) do you see that as the 'active partner' doing the labor themselves, or hiring out things and just coordinating?

Once I closed on 3 properties on the same trip.

@Pat McGrath Yup up until 3 something and than back up at 7:30 this morning when my son woke up.  

As we did a very large amount of these the day before the sale or the morning of...

I'm sure @Brandon Turner won't be the one to come finish the job on Monday morning.

Good morning Mr.

A $1,000 trip for five days will be much better than a $30k+ disaster.

A lot of areas only allow them to be posted on the weekends now and smarter landlords post them on sat morning and then retrieve them sun night.

Besides the 14 days personal use, you can also have a open and closing "work" trip to your vacation home that does not count in the 14 days, a little bonus.And if you rent it out for 14 days or less total for the year, you do not have to declare the income, though you can't deduct any expenses except taxes & interest as a personal residence.For me emotion has to be separate from business.