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13 June 2013 | 5 replies
Google "Lonnie Dealers" for some ideas on how to do this.Good Luck!
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13 March 2013 | 14 replies
A few months later the mobile home dealer came and hauled the home off, saying they were the legal owners of the mobile home.
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26 November 2017 | 14 replies
You lose that privilege when that is your primary business, or you've don 2+ transactions and the IRS considers you a dealer.
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6 December 2017 | 8 replies
Go online every other day and read the Irish Independent newspaper.
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11 October 2014 | 14 replies
But, I love them all, someday it will sink in......I'd hope....for most not....poor kids and the wheeler dealers !
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8 January 2010 | 16 replies
Well, as a park owner and a lonnie dealer, I do not allow non owner occupied units either.
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26 September 2012 | 10 replies
I did get one from a mortgage company and sold it to a Lonnie Dealer to rehab & sell.
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24 February 2009 | 12 replies
If you elect to classify your entity or if the IRS elects to classify your entity as a "dealer" then you will lose some of the major benefits of non-dealer status (real estate as a capital gain or loss, depreciation, installment sales, and 1031 Like Kind Exchanges).
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24 January 2012 | 19 replies
That's equivalent to having a few properties and having something horrible happen (like the poster who bought the duplex, discovered a drug dealer lived above her, ended up living in her car because she was so afraid to go in, and spent thousands of dollars getting rid of the guy).
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23 November 2013 | 1 reply
How does contract assignment relate to IRS real estate dealer or investor status?