So that at the end of this tax year we can look back and say we did our best to not kill our chances of coming out ahead at filing time?

If it's a fairly small, isolated area, you can use bleach and kill it.

Kill the inlet, drain a gallon or two, open the inlet/ fill, drain a gallon or two.

I was at Joe Fairless' Best Ever conference this past weekend and there are people absolutely killing it in apartment syndication, apartment buying (their own $), mobile homes, corporate housing, parking lots and buying notes, just to name a few.

On the surface, it looks like the taxes listed here are killing your cash flow.

There is a black hole around 100 - 200 units where profit falls off dramatically as you hire employees, rent/buy office space, etc.I know some manager that are killing it with 100 units.

I guess if it is, I can learn about human physiology, but I can also learn about bacterias and single celled organisms too

For example I have seen $200-$300 a month HOAs that kill condos/ townhomes for investment purchases.

Even if i dont and i rehab it I can make a killing as a flip but a building would be even better.

I have yet to buy a building, but as I'm looking it comes down to:-buy a building that is within your comfort zone and not going to kill you if the deal goes south-underwrite conservatively, then go back and be more conservative-has to cashflow from day 1-plenty of reserves to cover the unexpected...both repairs and unexpected high vacancy-ideally LT financing, if that's not available, then even more reserves