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8 January 2025 | 6 replies
And she’s the one that released the latest tax rates and year to year comparisons in September of 2024.
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3 February 2025 | 47 replies
You can also try creative financing like seller financing or taking over a seller’s mortgage to avoid big upfront costs.
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13 January 2025 | 8 replies
Both allow you to avoid touching retirement funds while leveraging the value of your properties.
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6 February 2025 | 16 replies
To me, you'll get a similar (if not slightly better) rate than hard money and you'll also avoid paying points for the hard money.
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24 January 2025 | 3 replies
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23 January 2025 | 5 replies
You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.
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5 February 2025 | 13 replies
I heard that if you move the personal mortgages to an LLC they could get called and we would want to avoid that3.
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16 January 2025 | 6 replies
If I can park the 388k ($415-27k) for one year at CD rate of 4.5% and then est 300k (after paying cap gain/depr recap) at 3.0% (assume CD rates lower) that interest income of about 24 months net of ordinary income tax is about the same as my current mortgage.Trying to play devil's advocate and think why selling this year does not make sense.
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27 January 2025 | 35 replies
Another wildcard is that the tax office opened in The UAE a year ago.
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16 January 2025 | 7 replies
(It doesn’t pay its own taxes.