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17 November 2024 | 30 replies
Actively marketing the property and handling tenant relationsCost Segregation: allows you to accelerate depreciation by breaking down the property into different components, such as personal property (appliances, carpeting, etc.) and land improvements (landscaping, parking lots, etc.), which can be depreciated over a shorter period typically 5, 7, or 15 years rather than 27.5.
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10 November 2024 | 9 replies
That being said, I scrapped the idea and bought another rental property.One hack to consider, a colleague of mine finished a third floor, made the third floor the living room and kitchen and the second floor the two bedrooms because that scenario avoided the need for a second means of egress.
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12 November 2024 | 15 replies
But you still have to provide (and maintain) a kitchen, a bathroom, HVAC (well maybe just heat), a water heater.
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11 November 2024 | 11 replies
The comps in the area for MF's were at minimum 550k.Since purchasing the home there have been many updates to it to include a fully updated 2nd floor unit, updated bathrooms on both floors, new kitchen on the first floor, new roof, new driveway, new paver patio, updated front porch.
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10 November 2024 | 4 replies
Hi, this is a high rise condo and the building is responsible for the ventilation system which is not working, not only in my unit (bathroom & kitchen) but in the entire building.
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19 November 2024 | 111 replies
I usually spend my time, if the seller is present, keeping him/her out of the way if needed, pumping tenants for info, taking measurements for room sizes and drawing floor plans with doors and windows and noting appliances and taking pictures.We look for value add properties that are in decent structural and mechanical condition (except for one deal that we got really cheap).
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5 November 2024 | 22 replies
I kicked a box of dishes out of the kitchen and locked the door.
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5 November 2024 | 22 replies
I'd rather not spend the $$ for the granite or quartz kitchen countertops.
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30 October 2024 | 1 reply
From those of you who have done many rehabs, and are better at interior design than I am, I am curious what suggestions you may have for this kitchen?
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6 November 2024 | 3 replies
Kitchen and Bathrooms are the most important by far.