Isaac Chun
How do I vet a non local private lender?
5 September 2018 | 6 replies
For the purposes of making a real estate loan, NV does not distinguish between business and consumer purpose loans.
Ryan Jopson
Holyoke, MA: Current state of the market
26 January 2021 | 1 reply
-Are rents justifying the increase or is there a variable factor playing a significant role that I have yet to distinguish?
Braden Anderson
What do you name each of your rental properties?
6 June 2019 | 57 replies
Street name is more accurate and easy to distinguish.
Matt Kuhn
LVP Durability in a college rental
8 August 2018 | 1 reply
The better quality ones are extremely durable and sometimes difficult to distinguish from wood.
John Hyre
Pass-Thru Deduction, Landlords, New Regs
6 September 2018 | 28 replies
If one were to limit oneself to what the IRS “thinks”, then one’s clients would not fully benefit from what the law actually permits.In the John D.
Brian Leonard
Furnishing a Self-Directed IRA Purchased Rental
22 August 2019 | 16 replies
A few years ago I converted a few 401K's into one self-directed/checkbook IRA.
Tim Ellis
The Service Dog Dilemma
4 March 2019 | 27 replies
I believe it is important to distinguish the difference between an Emotional Support Animal (ESA) and a Service Dog.
Johnny Pineyro
Oregon Declares Statewide Rent Control
4 April 2019 | 21 replies
In my mind, Portland has many similar advantages to San Francisco - geographic constraints to spreading (rivers, mountains), difficult development requirements, a young workforce and better than national average population growth projections, and a "coolness" factor with tech workers and millennials that one can't simply create by declaring oneself a tech hub.
Robert Larson
Wholesaling building rapport
23 March 2019 | 1 reply
@Robert Larson I'd suggest we distinguish between two different ideas: "disclose" it, and "discuss" it.
Andy Bondhus
Auto loan interest, is it deductible?
16 February 2018 | 5 replies
Interest on an automobile purchase (to the extent of business use of course) is included along with parking fees, tolls, and taxes as a "separate item" distinguished from the "fixed and variable costs" described in §4.02 that are not deductible when using the standard mileage rate.The theory here is that the "standard mileage rate" is the sum of "fixed and variable costs" such as depreciation or lease payments, maintenance and repairs, tires, gas, oil, insurance, license/registration fees, etc., on a per-mile basis.However, this "standard mileage rate" does not (theoretically, of course) include the "separate items" of parking fees, tolls, interest, and taxes, and so these may be deducted in addition to taking the standard mileage rate.Also, I assume your car is relatively old or inexpensive such that the standard mileage method makes sense as opposed to the actual expense method?