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10 February 2025 | 16 replies
I bought a 3 acre plot in Sonoma county CA. late 90s unbuildable everyone told me it was not worth buying since it would not perk and you could not build on it and Utls are a long way away. etc etc.. well there was a new overchange put in about 3/4 of a mile away connecting my access road to the freeway .
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13 February 2025 | 15 replies
It really is a nice perk of making rentals nonpassive that high income earners can avoid NIIT, which is easy to forget since we're usually focusing on qualifying rentals as nonpassive to deduct a tax loss.
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22 January 2025 | 2 replies
I can help compare BP features but without knowing too much about Privy's functionality I'm not sure I can give you a great answer, other than of course BP Pro comes with more perks than just deal finding.
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26 January 2025 | 19 replies
I am a power user for Zoho for a number of reasons including following:Zoho CRM, truly the beast out there.
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16 February 2025 | 44 replies
Obviously none of they knew of the fire or looked at the property in the last few days.At tax sale I have seen people have bought:US Army bombing rangeExpired lease on propertyhouse with 3 walls, 4th wall missingsliver of land 2 feet wide50 foot cliff, access by helicopter onlyland at bottom of man made lake (literally underwater property)wetlandsflood plainsunbuildable propertyfailed perk testhistoric dig site, can't disturbproperty with no road frontagecondemned propertyproperty already scheduled for demolition soonformer gas station with leaking gas and oil tanks undergrounddry cleaning plant with toxic wasteSuper fund sitechromium factory with tanks and barrels of an unknown liquiddistillery with full barrells (ATF and state government was very interested and wanted to seize and destroy those barrells)Bigger Pockets Podcast #82
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18 February 2025 | 8 replies
I recently worked on an amendment to some condo plans we did 15+ years ago and I had to re-calculate how we got to what was in the plans and the values changed over two or three iterations as the attorney represented what to include and exclude.
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19 February 2025 | 14 replies
I have been considering asking to buy the single family in cash to separate the deal but would like that amount to be subtracted from the purchase price while keeping the cash I would spend on the down payment the same to include the single family that way the seller gets the same amount of cash upfront.
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15 February 2025 | 8 replies
The HOA was included in the foreclosure.
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14 February 2025 | 2 replies
Many carriers are including exclusions for GC commercial general liability coverage and professional liability coverage for engagements involving condos and even stricter exclusions when dealing with conversions.
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19 February 2025 | 4 replies
That's not including the equity/money put in getting to build permit.