Gabi NA
Young college student looking to buy their first property for Airbnb or Rental
17 December 2024 | 12 replies
STR and MTR are basically full time jobs when you're booked.
Duncan Forbes
Would like Suggestions on Foreclosure Buying
11 January 2025 | 31 replies
On top of that you have idiots who engage in bid wars and pay retail for a house that has never been inspected (and those are the bidders who will cry foul when they discover totally trashed and destroyed house that will require a full gut job to rehab).
Jevani P. Barron
Seeking Advice on Investment Property Strategy: Cash-Out Refi, Raise Rent, or Sell?
20 December 2024 | 6 replies
If you’re looking for a more full time job I’d consider that.
Chris Kelly
Tenant smoking weed but can't prove it
25 December 2024 | 28 replies
Some police departments allow off their duty officers to be hired for security jobs.
Gabe Glassic
Let me help you
16 December 2024 | 2 replies
If you need assistance in flipping a property, or really any job an inexperienced person can do, I am very interested for any exposure I can get to real-estate investing.
Celine Li
"Which out-of-state cities are good for investing now?"
16 December 2024 | 23 replies
Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.
Allen McCann
New member from Cleveland, OH
17 December 2024 | 27 replies
Great macroeconomics with growing population and job market.
Melanie Baldridge
Bonus depreciation ?
16 December 2024 | 0 replies
Bonus depreciation is just a special part of the US tax code.It allows you to take accelerated depreciation on portions of your property depending on when an asset is put into service.At the time of this writing, you can write off a huge portion (60% in 2024) of many qualified components that have a useful lifespan of 15 years or less.That means a certain percentage of things like landscaping, sidewalks, latches, appliances, fences, certain flooring, etc is depreciable in year 1.The bonus depreciation rate percentage changes yearly depending on the administration and the tax code.For years 2015 through 2017 first-year depreciation for all the items on a 15-year schedule or less was set to 50%.It was scheduled to go down to 40% in 2018 and 30% in 2019 and then 0% in 2020.But then Trump got elected, and he enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.That moved the bonus depreciation percentage to 100% from 2017 to 2022.In 2023 it went down to 80% and it’s currently at 60%.Depending on who gets elected again, 100% may be back on the table.Only time will tell.We know that the US government wants to incentivize more development and ownership of RE.They want Americans to continue to build and maintain our physical world.That’s why real estate is one of the most tax-advantaged assets in the US.Depreciation and bonus depreciation for RE are very positive and will likely continue in the years ahead.