If you ended up getting burned by the risk overall your time in that trade has negative value....so not adjustment necessary.Paul's post is fantastic!

They did not just accept what the government was doing or getting involved with.I too believe that government should not have a place in all that that do and I believe when one place of involvement has such a negative impact on society, something should be done about it.

In other words, they give you the upbeat, rah rah sis boom bah, side of the business without any of the real world negatives.

We are a country in negative equity.

The installation will be a slab on grade, and I've read some negative reviews about installation on concrete and specifically basements, and one review of the Allure product had to rip it out after experiencing a chemical odor that wouldn't go away.Is the vinyl plank easy to swap out if you have damage?

I could exercise it, but since he is working on a home with profits over $250K I don't want the smaller venture to negatively impact the larger venture.

In fact, many of them even failed when it came to having any practical value because they were selling you something with negative cash-flow with the hope of gaining some appreciation sometime in the future.

But doing lots of this also exposes your plan to UBIT, which is nasty little tax with pretty stiff rates, essentially negating much of the growth you were expecting.As far as getting the company match on a 401k, with a 100% match, it would take 12 years for a non-401k with no match to overcome the 100% head start in the 401k, assuming 5% returns in the 401k and 12% in the non-401k.

so my numbers would beOffer at $110KCash Flow - $340 = $85/door  cash on cash return is 7 years.Offer at $80K starts to make sense, but still not goodCash Flow - $477 =$119/doorcash on cash return is 4 years.You mention paying for repairs with cash flow, only three unit are rented so cash flow is actually negative in the beginning, because the other unit will have expenses, turn over and maintenance cost.Unless you have plan to lower operating cost or raise rents,  we would look for a deal with better numbers.  

If those terms were not sweet enough, we were able to renegotiate to get an additional 6 months payments differed so we could reduce our negative amortization during the stabilization of the asset.