Unless one is willing to play in gray areas of taxation treatment, I find the notion of buying cash-flowing real estate with any SD retirement money to be a very expensive proposition.  

@Charles H.If your activities rise to the level of a 'trade or business', a general non-specific search in a new geographic area would be start up expenses under IRC Sec 195.Once you've identified a specific property, expenses are capitalized and added to the property's basis if acquired.Expensing the costs, even through an active LLC/ "investment LLC" is not correct treatment and will get adjusted should the IRS ever audit you.Encourage you to work with your tax CPA/EA as it's very possible not all of the travel expenses are 100% business related.

If she is willing to pay for it I do not see any downside to her getting the treatment done.

This is for our personal home. We are re-carpeting our family room that was occupied by our Sidney. He was a Boston who had issues later in life, including incontinence. Sadly, he has been gone for a while, and we are...

From my understanding - the mother suffered from dementia, hoarded animals and is now being placed in a home for better treatment.  

Unless you elect special tax treatment for the LLC, it has no effect at all on your taxes.What's really happening is that YOU are earning income and paying expenses during the course of the year.

Although the physical inspector did not think there was any structural damage, he recommended that the termite inspectors come out for confirmation as well as treatment options.We also want to get at least a couple of GCs to the property to give us their bids and confirm that my repair estimates are within range before our contingency period ends next week. 

I worked about 2 miles from a wastewater treatment plant for almost 20 years and certain days the smell was unbelievable.

My grandmother recently received my grandfather's half interest in a 4- flat as the surviving spouse. One of the apartments had been used as their principal residence and continues to be used by my grandmother. The re...

No the cemetery will not affect the value since it isn't that close but the thing that is closer is the city sewage treatment plant and homeless shelter (google 40 Prado), on a windy day you may get some not so pleasant smells in that direction since the wind blows southeast mostly through the Los Osos Valley wind tunnel.