Any recommendations on who I should turn to or how I should derive a solid Purchase Price offer?  

The rules are usually derived from the local laws (though not always) and many agents do not even know these specific rules and laws.

An update to this story... the guy "faces 14 counts of bank fraud, five counts of engaging in monetary transactions involving criminally derived property and one count of aggravated identity theft."

You are right, you don’t own the property anymore, but these rent monies proceeds were sent to you, so if any bills, Managment fees etc... were derived from that income, they come out of the property management business trust account, and now they must come up with the money to replace if you do not.

Now they simply don't want to deal with compliance or it isn't financially worth doing for the small amount of business derived from U.S. clients.One method to avoid some of the problems is to create a foreign corporation and have the corporation handle the transaction.

Hi All, Question to some of the seasoned marketers out there - has anyone ever compared the response rates for marketing campaigns derived from a purchased list (via Listsoure, etc.) vs.

As a general rule, unless the profit is substantial or the corporate rates are lower than personal rates there is no tax benefit derived from having passive income taxed in a corporate entity.    

A down payment is not derived from that statement since (a) it does not mean $20k is a sale price and (b) any down payment if that is a sale price means carrying a note for less than $20k.  

Abandoned real estate can usually be identified by reviewing a county’s list of delinquent property tax parcels for parcels nobody has paid the taxes on for at least 2 years and then further analyzing those properties.In the abandoned real estate arena the typical property is abandoned because it is of little or no value –as in too small, or odd shaped, or wet, or steep or otherwise unsuitable to build upon.Income can still be derived from a significant number of such properties by renting them for RV use, cutting and selling trees, creating gardens, renting pasture, harvesting crops, creating storage capacity, or by (ad your idea).

In an IRA, there is a small tax on the percentage of income that is derived from the borrowed funds call UDFI.Below is a link to a recent thread asking basically the same "where do I start with a self-directed IRA" question.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/519/topics/29...