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Gabriel Miller Can owner financing be combined with bank financing
27 April 2021 | 9 replies
@Richard Appleby All but universally banks will not credit that owner financing as you down payment requirement, they will simply credit as a reduction of purchase price, there in slightly decreasing your down payment requirement AND that payment add's to the calculations on that side for viability. 
Michael Plaks Tax reform Q&A Thread 4 - New creative tax strategies
31 December 2017 | 33 replies
THIS ONE IS FOR THE DEBATE OF NEW IDEAS.Specifically, Brandon suggested 2 ideas already:#1: Allocate more basis to land, to increase room for the 20% deduction and decrease depreciation recapture at sale.#2: Switch from W2 to 1099, to benefit from the 20% deduction.Both are subject to debate, and feel free to add your ideas.
Jack B. Wont the new Trump/GOP tax plan reduce demand for housing?
5 January 2018 | 56 replies
.: affordability)#2 - Just because the net result of an effective tax increase on a certain class of property will have a downward effect on demand, that does not mean that the overall demand will decrease
Yolanda Williams Flipping Income Gain
27 December 2017 | 8 replies
How can I defer or decrease the taxation on income.
Joe P. Trying to determine costs
9 January 2018 | 6 replies
Ultimately I think this is a mistake and may be one of the ways I can decrease landlord costs for a better CF and COC return.
Alex Deacon Pittsburgh Hot spots
24 October 2017 | 4 replies
According to PennDOT, a guy with a regular license can legally operate a vehicle of up to 26,000 lbs.Assuming the law and its limits stay exactly the same and don't change to benefit the changing interests of very wealthy people and industries historically flush with cash while sticking it further to the weak, poor, and helpless (which of course never happens in America the Beautiful), that means that Pennsylvania cargo carriers will in the near future be able to pay an unskilled worker less than 1/4 of the going rate to take on reliably more than 1/3 of the typical truck load handled by a well-paid and experienced trucker.So I am rather certain that one of the first things that is going to happen is that we're going to see more smaller trucks controlled by autonomous technology with minimally paid people behind the wheel just watching the technology do the work (perhaps while they do a second unskilled job on their tablets) on all roads moving more and more cargo, while there will be a decrease of larger load carriers with expensive drivers on roads that allow trucking traffic.So if there's a road that goes over a bridge that typically has a lot of commercial tractor-trailers going over it in and out of a big shopping development primarily accessible by the bridge, I'd expect to see fewer large trucks on it and faster pickup on the smaller trucks going over it, which would increases the rate of traffic and would likely improve congestion along that artery, thus making rental properties on the less desirable side of this bridge more easily accessible by people who who don't want to pay out the nose for rental properties on the more desirable side of this bridge.
Julian Mills Can using a quit-claim deed to an LLC reduce your Debt-to-Income
19 September 2017 | 5 replies
1) decrease your debt2) increase your income 3) profit
Vic Vega Using an LLC. Pros and Cons??
21 September 2017 | 25 replies
Totally wrong: it's not more expensive than to operate as a person vs LLC, for tax purposes it's a disregarded entity if you're 100% owner, loans more expensive because it's commercial loans not because you're in form of LLC, no annual fees at all.Pros: your name is not searchable on auditor site, it's give your assets protection if you're not co-mingling money, you can build separate credit history for your LLC (for example, I have 2 credit cards for my businesses and they are not on my personal credit report - just on EIN).Depending on how you structure your businesses, you might decrease taxes - rental business is on sch.E while main business on sch.C and you can manage cash flow between them).Besides, it gives your money protection from claims on your personal liabilities (unless you QCD your properties back and forth to get a loan). 
Nick Marsch First Time Managing Properties Myself!!
20 September 2017 | 9 replies
I often get repeat business and decrease my vacancy rate because my tenants know that I'm on their team for making their living situation a pleasant experience.
Samantha Vice Evaluating Value of 32 unit MF
19 September 2017 | 4 replies
This would decrease total expenditures, thus driving monthly cash flow up.