the failure I see is the knob turns but does not engage the latch.  

Find a job that is engaging and use Real Estate to build long term wealth, not to find happiness. 

While topics like using BP are great (hopefully all in attendance will with your help, join us and engage here), be sure to focus more on your local issues -- if you can do that, you're going to put together a successful group.We're excited that so many people want to put together local groups -- especially when there are already groups in areas that they are coming together.

I now rent out the old house (with the HELOC) and the rent comfortably covers the HELOC/mortgage payments with money to spare.My question is whether I am allowed to deduct the HELOC interest alongside my new mortgage interest on the new house.

Hello @Michael Plaks and @Ashish Acharya, are you allowed to change/switch the category of your engagement to the property from Passive to Active participant in the future once you classify them when you acquired the property?

We just had a family gathering and did some fun stuff that week to keep the tenagers engaged.

Not sure how I, alongside many of my partners and fellow investors managed to do everything you said can't be done.

I am guessing traditional banks don't offer them alongside 20% down mortgages.

they will give you a free consult and maybe fire off a letter for a few hundred dollars but to engage they will ask for $5k retainer to start litigation.

Same for AppFolio from contact with them.In terms of Accounting, I honestly have read that many people continue to use Quickbooks for accounting alongside Buildium and AppFolio.