But, dealers get to deduct mileage and other expenses, can use Section 179 to write off 100% of the cost of full bed trucks in the year of acquisition and up to $25,000 of the cost of other vehicles, can use Section 179 to write off the cost of computers and other business equipment entirely in the year purchased, and generally can take a lot of business expense deductions.

We tired to get them fixed when we first purchased, but could not get the contractor scheduled, so decided to "wait and see".If it is near campus, could you make more renting it by the room or as a vacation rental?  

What I was really attempting to do was to relieve him of some of the signs and symptoms of the "tired landlord syndrome"  I diagnosed as setting in during the years following our leaving the nest.

This last few years I continue to have families who can't pay the rent, move out, leaving everything they own, including their vehicles.

Where can they get service for a faulty vehicle?

Chances are, if they have more than one vehicle for every adult they spend a lot of time broken and being fixed.

However, I keep exploring ways to take the HELOC & CASH (totaling 300k) and parking it into a MFU but after debt service, it's not that impressive of a cash-flowing vehicle unless I can get something closer to 10% cap. 

I believe real estate investment can provide opportunities to realize financial and life goals that would otherwise be difficult to reach by use of other investment vehicles.

To potentially help facilitate this,  I have a client investor interested in making his money make money with real estate as a vehicle and the home builder I'm partnered up with on the new build can also do remodeling on the fix and flips if and when needed.  

I'm tired of being patient and am ready to make some moves.