Pass-through entities are Schedule C businesses, partnerships, S-Corporations, and rental businesses (Schedule E) and LLC's who are taxes as the above entities.The income from each entity is treated separately, therefore, a loss from one entity cannot offset income from another entity.Capital gains are excluded from the the pass-through deduction calculation.

Is it best for us to try and make an LLC for this?

When flipping a assignment contract is it a good move to have a llc company name or use your own name

Generally, a buy and hold investor would use an LLC, whereas a high volume flipper would have their LLC taxed as an s corp.

My LLC is no-where to be found on the document.

Hi everyone,When buying investment properties, do you place them all under different LLC's or do you place them all on one?

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Hello All,Here is a follow-up to my "Beginner Series" questions.

I am expecting to add around $100,000 of value, but i suspect i can get more (contractor is a friend with super cheap rates,  RE market is really good, 3-5 yrs of political stabilization after a series of coups in the 90s and 00s and prime location).  

On Nov 6 I asked him in writing (please see attached my final email to which he never responded) to please take down the website with my LLC (apparently he made a second one too, a support site, which I was unaware of).