Craig attributes his success in business to education, discipline and systems.In his free time, Craig enjoys lifting weights and Bikram Yoga (and any other activity he thinks he is young enough to engage in) He’s known for spending too much time watching his favorite football teams.

When an IRA uses debt financing, the gains attributed to the borrowed money are considered Unrelated Debt Financed Income and are therefore taxed as UBIT. 

I attribute part of the delay trying to find someone to lease/option the home for $950 for first 5 weeks ... once I opened it up to a traditional renter I found someone within three weeks at $750, one year lease.

If debt-financed real estate is acquired via an IRA, any income attributable to such investment will generally be subject to unrelated debt finance income tax.5.

I attribute this to 2 things that MOST Realtors don't do - 1. prospect/cold call for new business 2.

Let's say you have a spreadsheet with 300 home on it.Is there a place one can upload a, say a CSV file, and it returns the estimated home values, and maybe other attributes like square footage, for each listed address?

I've logged countless miles in my personal vehicle that could be attributed to the house, but its not even worth trying to quantify (never mind create a paper trail).

But, don't attribute too much weight to the whole 2% thing...consider it a wish list goal...

Your property is part personal residence and part investment property.Therefore - You are entitled to report expenses that are directly related to the investment property(repairs to rental units, cleaning rental units, advertising, etc) and expenses indirectly related to the investment property(mortgage interest, taxes, utilities(if it covers full property), trash collection etc.).You are also entitled to take an itemized deduction for mortgage interest and real estate taxes attributable to your unit.Also on the saleThe portion of your home used as a personal residence is able to exclude $250,000($500,000 if Married filing joint) of gain.The portion of your home used as an investment property is able to be exchanged for another investment property.

Mine charges about $600 a year, though only a portion of that can be attributed to real estate.Lengthy, messy evictions.