@Art P.I'd be careful with the taking the "gifting" position.A gift is a transaction in which full consideration is not received in return. 

A perfectly valid option when dealing with this kind of windfall gain.The estate may not have been closed out but if so that's just a logistical issue to take care of before executing the 1031.Awesome gift from Grandma to your mom!!

Even in the large "hotel volume" quantities that many of us are purchasing in, seems odd that we can't find somewhere better than Costco which is where everyone shops!

You still have to screen the tenants well but offering something like a $100 gift card for a "move in special" can spark some interest.4.

For 2019 someone can gift $15,000 or less annually without having to pay taxes or report it. 2.

Told their agent they should have been shopping earlier so they could buy that house, but my final offer was still $120,000. 

I was wondering if it was legal (or just looked tacky) to make a post on my personal page, tagging my business page and asking my Facebook friends for referrals for a prize, for example: share my business page or tag someone you know who may be looking for real estate and the person who sends me someone that creates an actual deal gets a $10 Starbucks gift card or something along those lines.

I'm going to be purchasing my first property soon and I'm currently shopping for a mortgage.

We were hoping to bridge that -$25k gap by using an unsecured loan or through a gift from family members.

@Shannon Browing You can get you down payment from a gift from a direct relative.