You can influence your investment's performance through property improvements, rent adjustments, and savvy management... something you can't quite do with an annuity tied to obscure indexes.An Individual Retirement Account (IRA), particularly a Self-Directed IRA, can be used to invest in real estate and employ leverage to potentially enhance returns.

I’ve been in the market for two years now, and while the learning curve has been steep, especially in the NJ market, I’m committed to growing and improving every day.I primarily worked with buyers, many of whom were family and friends.

I'd like to add to the above by saying that RUBS billing is the single smartest, most intelligent improvement we've ever made as Property Managers.   

There's a price/rent lag because leases are typically for a year so there's the delayed effect of old leases playing out before upward pressure on rents does it's thing.With that said, there's also your ability to refinance out of that rate and improve the rentability of it that way.

If there is no problem then the HELOC will provide more flexibility since the cash out re-fi may yield more proceeds after improvements when applying the 70 or 80% LTV limit whereas you might get improvement proceeds from an investment loan but you won't want to because there will be a lot of red tape, inspections, draws, lien waiver compliance and a lot of other crap they load onto improvement loans on investment property.

-Increases the Value of the property, almost always by at least the invested amount, in many areas of San Diego, it can increase the value of the property by as much as 150% of the invested amount-Decreases your risk profile, having 4 units instead of 2, helps stabilize your rental revenue when vacancies and repairs have to happen.

The formula for your taxable amount is the difference between your net sale (contract price minus closing costs) and your adjusted cost basis (original purchase price plus capital improvements minus depreciation). 

If you’ve owned it for a few years there a cap on the amount they can increase the taxable value, I believe it’s 15% excluding improvements to the property.

Here are a few definitions that you absolutely must know.Bookmark this thread and use it as your cheat sheet for 2024.Okay, let’s dive in:Here are the terms that I’ll define in this thread:-DEPRECIATION-BONUS DEPRECIATION-COST SEGREGATION -BASIS-LAND VALUE-IMPROVEMENT VALUE-3115-RECAPTUREDEPRECIATION:Depreciation is the decrease in $$ value of your asset over time due to wear & tear, etc.Standard depreciation is deducted evenly over 27.5 years for residential and 39 years for commercial.Even w/o cost segregation you get to deduct depreciation each year.BONUS DEPRECIATION:This is an accelerated depreciation method.

Purchase price: $105,000 Cash invested: $10,000 Sale price: $210,000 While in college, I had enough money saved to put 3% down on a property and make some small improvements.