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23 October 2021 | 17 replies
This is the truth and nothing but the truth.I attribute a TON of my success in real estate investing to Biggerpockets and the membership here.
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2 November 2021 | 7 replies
I invest to replace income, build generational wealth, creating an income funnel, and improve the community around meI like the search and the hunt, acquire a great property, and turning it to something great that no one saw otherwiseIP I look for a deal that makes sense that has a good tenant class, good appreciation, and solid returns (8/10% cash/cash)An agent has to have very good market knowledge, understand the local geographical attributes, and has a good relationship with their network
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20 October 2021 | 3 replies
For example, if casualty damages or destroys an office building and its landscaping, the properties are taken into account separately to determine the casualty loss or conversion gain attributable to each.3.
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3 November 2021 | 7 replies
Any early nonqualified use will forever taint the property and some portion of the gain will be taxable (unless a step-up in basis occurs under IRC Sec. 1014 after the death of the taxpayer)When sec121 qualified property with non-qualified use is involved in 1031: (non-qualified period tacks on)Depreciation: In other words, where a taxpayer's residence is the relinquished property in a tax-free exchange, any gain attributable to depreciation deductions relating to the residence can be deferred until the taxpayer disposes of the replacement property received in the exchange.Gain: The Code Sec. 121 exclusion has to be applied to gain realized before applying the nonrecognition rule of Code Sec. 1031Illustration 1: A, an unmarried individual, buys a house for $210,000 that A uses as his principal residence from Year 1 to Year 5.
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22 October 2021 | 2 replies
However, because this data was collected over the past year and we just had the eviction moratorium lifted recently, my hunch is that the majority of the data attributing to this data set are the new asking rents once there is a vacancy.
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18 November 2021 | 11 replies
Hands down, I attribute my confidence going into my first deal to everything I've learned on here.
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29 October 2021 | 1 reply
Recently, I read the biography Snowball on Warren Buffet.There are many unique attributes that have made Warren Buffet one of the greatest investors of all time: his ability to ignore criticism, his long-term focus, his remarkable ability to devour his way through volumes of books without distraction, his detachment from emotion for investing, his tremendous frugality, and much more.Buffet does have something we can all replicate.
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7 November 2021 | 4 replies
What cap rate and other attributes would you mainly look at in the deal to decide if it's worth considering ?
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5 November 2021 | 7 replies
In other words, it is the amount of long-term gain attributable to depreciation that is not required to be treated as ordinary income pursuant to the Section 1250 recapture ruleHowever, if there were cost seg done, there might be some 1245 and 1250 depreciation recapture.
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18 November 2021 | 73 replies
But circumstances and tax attributes are very different for everyone - maybe someone has a large NOL they want to burn up or maybe they need to report income to get a loan.