Hello All! Been "tinkering" in Real Estate for a few years and been on BP for a year or so.  Great resources here and from all that I have encountered, there are some fantastic people too.My day job is the automotive ...

I am a new real estate entrepreneur searching for multi family homes in SE Michigan.  

It will take months of networking, meeting people at your local REIA, sending out a direct mail campaign, etc.I dont know how you can do it from SE Asia.

Hey everyone,I’ve been lurking on and off here for about a year now. I recently started listening to the BP podcast and I’ve become extremely motivated to start diving into real estate investing.I’ve been sitting on t...

I'm from SE Massachusetts and currently own a single family home and a 3 family rental property.

The most common difference is that the state will impose some tax or fee on pass-through entities where the federal government does not.Many business organizations are required to have the same fiscal year as their owner(s) have or to basically have a deposit with the IRS to compensate for timing differences.https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-se...https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/launch/choose-b...

If you pull up section 1402(a) paragraph 1 this excludes rental real estate income from  being subject to SE tax.

My wife translated for a couple that was staying in Colorado due to seing a specialist and it would have been a blessing to have a home close to the hospital to rent.

Check local law and review the HOA organizational docs as to whether those dues are a lien regardless of whether a "lien" per se is filed among the land records. 

Frequent reader, new poster here on BP, sorry to hear about your situation @Mitch SmithI'm a real estate attorney and contractor/investor in the Indy area (based out of Shelbyville, 25 minutes SE of Indy) and I'm seeing this happen far too often right now.