
25 September 2024 | 37 replies
Lender 2 requires 6 months reserves. they want the borrower to document any large deposits and they want mortgage statements on any investment properties listed on the 1003.The point is different lenders do different things and it's important to not generalize as a broker, but interview the borrower, find their pain points and marry them with a lender that will minimize those pain points for a successful close.

23 September 2024 | 9 replies
To protect your assets, creating a separate LLC for the third property would better isolate liability, though it adds administrative and insurance costs.

25 September 2024 | 4 replies
Filling vacant spaces in your communities can be a huge pain!
28 September 2024 | 19 replies
During RLT administration (after the death of the grantor), it is common for Trustees to liquidate/convert stocks or other capital assets shortly after the death of the grantor.

24 September 2024 | 16 replies
I love hearing insight from hosts who have solved this common pain point.

23 September 2024 | 6 replies
Bonus depreciation is just a special part of the US tax code.It allows you to take accelerated depreciation on portions of your property depending on when an asset is put into service.At the time of this writing, you can write off a huge portion (60% in 2024) of many qualified components that have a useful lifespan of 15 years or less.That means a certain percentage of things like landscaping, sidewalks, latches, appliances, fences, certain flooring, etc is depreciable in year 1.The bonus depreciation rate percentage changes yearly depending on the administration and the tax code.For years 2015 through 2017 first-year depreciation for all the items on a 15-year schedule or less was set to 50%.It was scheduled to go down to 40% in 2018 and 30% in 2019 and then 0% in 2020.But then Trump got elected, and he enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.That moved the bonus depreciation percentage to 100% from 2017 to 2022.In 2023 it went down to 80% and it’s currently at 60%.Depending on who gets elected again, 100% may be back on the table.Only time will tell.We know that the US government wants to incentivize more development and ownership of RE.They want Americans to continue to build and maintain our physical world.That’s why real estate is one of the most tax-advantaged assets in the US.Depreciation and bonus depreciation for RE are very positive and will likely continue in the years ahead.

24 September 2024 | 14 replies
Being close to expiration I’m going back and forth on what to do.This tenant has just been a pain.

24 September 2024 | 13 replies
@Sarah R Pullen I share your pain!

27 September 2024 | 40 replies
I will say there are a FEW wholesale lenders that are a pain to work with but it comes back to the rep not knowing or the lender taking their sweet time to review a file.

24 September 2024 | 12 replies
I unfortunately feel 100% of your pain