
8 February 2025 | 6 replies
I know this is a slower process than you might like but $3.3M in debt is a lot for most people.

13 February 2025 | 7 replies
You’ll still be personally responsible for the debt and it will still show up on your credit report/DTI if that’s what you’re trying to pull off.You’ll increase your interest rate by 2-5%?

8 February 2025 | 3 replies
AppFolio is great for property managers, but investors often use Stessa, REI Hub, or Buildium for tracking income, expenses, and tax reporting.

10 February 2025 | 1 reply
Are there any tax advantages or disadvantages to my being both a resident and a landlord?

6 February 2025 | 3 replies
More like a 101 of taxation: you had a reserve of losses -> it helps when you have profits.And a tax geek addendum:I also do not see a direct link to cost segregation benefits here.

15 February 2025 | 15 replies
Of course, I had to make additional assumptions about the cost of property taxes, insurance etc.

11 February 2025 | 10 replies
Not looking forward to losses, just meant in the sense that I have a new STR and will expect to incur losses in year 1 and this is advantageous from a tax perspective in a sense.

18 February 2025 | 2 replies
This creates two loan payments ($100,000 of equity and $300,000 on the new mortgage).Key NumbersHome Equity Loan Interest Rate: 6%Mortgage Interest Rate: 7%Rental Income: $3,000 per monthExpenses (management, taxes, insurance, maintenance): $800 per monthIncome and ExpensesMonthly Rental Income: $3,000Monthly Expenses: $800Monthly Mortgage Payment: $2,000ExplanationThe investor earns $3,000 in rent each month.They pay $2,000 on the investment property mortgage and $800 on other expenses.This leaves $200 profit each month or $2,400 per year.However, you have to pay $6,000 interest on the equity borrowed.This leaves you with an annual loss of $3,600.While the rental property generates positive monthly income, the interest cost of borrowing the initial $100,000 results in an overall loss.

1 February 2025 | 1 reply
A high property tax rate will increase the taxes more quickly as a percentage of total expenses when the property value increases.

5 February 2025 | 4 replies
But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).