So your entire capital gain might be characterized as dep recapture if you had help the property for long enough with full depreciation. 

The impact of UDFI in an IRA is typically nominal, so while a 401(k) is better through avoiding that tax, it is not generally a huge differential that would encourage one only eligible for an IRA to run away from a leveraged transaction.When you read on the internet that a Solo 401(k) is exempt from UBIT, that is a broad statement that mis-characterizes the real difference.  

:) I didn't want to assume that people understood the difference between cost of goods sold and operating expenses; this can be especially complicated in a business such as flipping houses, where certain expenses (like salaries of those who work on both the houses and general business tasks) can be difficult to characterize as one or the other.

In addition, you'll want a blanket loan that allows you to sell without having to re characterize the loan.

Over the past few months it's hit home for me that the RE business seems to involve being in semi-antagonistic relationships with others, characterized by a lack of trust on all sides.

Marriage is out of style and many couples with kids are together, just not legally married.Yup, the religious right likes to characterize the problem as "unwed mothers," but it's really "unfit parents," whether married or not...I love how this issue always gets wrapped up with cries for "traditional marriage"...and funny how the religious zealots who say this tend to neglect the fact that most of the big name patriarchs in the bible didn't have "traditional marriages" (in fact, most were polygamists).

These in theory are all short term transactions and typically fully exposed to taxation as any business would.Then you have investments characterized as long-term investments such as rentals and installment sale financing.

You need to research Matthew 7:1-5 before you keep mis-characterizing what the message there is.

We have so lost the "United We Stand" American Pride, resolution and flag waiving that characterized our country after 9/11.Obama, more than any president in the history of this country, inclucing those white guys, Abe Lincoln, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has the opportunity to greatly effect and improve race relations in this country, and he is chosing instead to push a redistribution of wealth, tax and spend, and socialist policies.

As quoted from this article,TAMPA"A simple narrative is often used to characterize the foreclosure crisis at the heart of America's Great Recession: While banks are at fault for approving risky loans, people who lived in the homes are as much to blame.