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12 February 2025 | 0 replies
A professional home inspection can help you avoid costly surprises by uncovering potential issues before you buy, renovate, or rent out a property.Key Areas an Inspection Should Cover:✅ Roof – The home's first line of defense.
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20 January 2025 | 6 replies
We want to plan in the most tax vantaged ways (which includes keeping future AGI as low as possible) and open to new-age and creative concepts.Respectfully ask to keep discussion to topic vs. selling one's self or services seeking new business.
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4 January 2025 | 2 replies
Selling makes agents money and the IRS if you don''t 1031, it's almost always better to re-leverage instead.
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13 January 2025 | 17 replies
What are the costs for the value adds, the expected hold time, and the expected sale price?
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3 February 2025 | 8 replies
I agree with John, we are seeing renovation costs of $150k- $200k for a basement unit and $250k + for a coach house.
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28 December 2024 | 8 replies
Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.
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30 January 2025 | 5 replies
The program is designed to assist low-income families, and these benchmarks might exclude a lot of qualified people.That said, the requirement for stable rental and work history is reasonable, but you might consider relaxing the credit score or income requirements since Section 8 guarantees a portion of the rent.
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9 February 2025 | 2 replies
Lets say your accountant tries to write off as much as is legally possible when it comes to lowing your taxible income so that your tax burden is less and you pay less taxes.
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6 February 2025 | 10 replies
Selling the PropertyIf your parents decide to sell, they could: Sell As-Is: At a current appraisal of $350k, they could walk away with a sizable profit (after transaction costs like realtor fees, taxes, etc.).