Imagine making millions of dollars over the course of your career and then having to pay 30-50% every year to uncle sam instead of compounding that cash over time.This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.To reduce their taxable income, they just buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.

So, if she bought the bitcoin for $1 million and is now using it to close on a $10 million property, that is a $9 million gain that needs to be accounted for in her income tax.

It's simple enough to make a row for income, and another for expenses, and then subdivide those expenses, and add them up in the total expenses cell and then subtract the gross income from those total expenses to get my net.

Both higher income yields and appreciation in value. 

A growing income stream is worth more--so I'd like to see growth so that there is a path to profit. 

Other KPIs and considerations you should evaluate when talking to any lender who offered private placement of loans/notes are historic default rate, how quickly they can place your funds (do you get preference over their income funds, for example), average interest rate - borrower note rate and what is passed through to you, are loans serviced by a 3rd party servicer or in house.

I started investing a little over a year ago and have earned almost $160k gross so far with 3 Padsplits.Next year if I do nothing, the 3 current properties should earn about $200k gross. 

(Btw I can’t believe anyone would give that tacky designer wearing clown their hard earned money) Clearly incompetent like every other Rad employee. 

if you buy a random property in a neighborhood you've never been to and turn it over to people you don't know you'll just lose money.not trying to be negative, trying to protect you and your hard earned cash.

The expectation here is more income, assuming that your property is in an area where furnished rentals are in demand.