I live in an older condo association and at our annual meeting I learned that one of the owners died January of 2018. The association president has been unsuccessful in reaching next of kin regarding the condo and any...

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For those reading this, if you fail to follow the rules regarding LLCs, they don't do you any good.

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If following BRRRR strategy (disclaimer I am just going off of reading here, no first-hand knowledge yet), $65k x 70% = $45.5k.

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Now that you know how to calculate the current value or potential purchase price on the property...let's talk about determining ARV on this asset. 1) Do a complete rent comp analysis to determine if there is room to push the rents higher2) If there is room to increase rents...then you can start to determine what the value of the property would be after increasing the rents. 3) This will then allow you to back track to determine how much you would be willing to spend per door on CapEx improvements to achieve the rent premium.

This section prescribes rules for tracing debt proceeds to specific expenditures.Treas Reg §1.163-8T(a)(4)Treatment of interest expense(i)General ruleExcept as otherwise provided in paragraph (m) of this section (relating to limitations on interest expense other than the passive loss and nonbusiness interest limitations), interest expense allocated under the rules of this section is treated in the following manner:(A) Interest expense allocated to a trade or business expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(7) of this section) is taken into account under section 163(h)(2)(A);(B) Interest expense allocated to a passive activity expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(4) of this section) or a former passive activity expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(2) of this section) is taken into account for purposes of section 469 in determining the income or loss from the activity to which such expenditure relates;(C) Interest expense allocated to an investment expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(3) of this section) is treated for purposes of section 163(d) as investment interest;(D) Interest expense allocated to a personal expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(5) of this section) is treated for purposes of section 163(h) as personal interest; and(E) Interest expense allocated to a portfolio expenditure (as defined in paragraph (b)(6) of this section) is treated for purposes of section 469(e)(2)(B)(ii) as interest expense described in section 469(e)(1)(A)(i)(III).Treas Reg §1.163-8T(c)(4)Allocation of debt; proceeds deposited in borrower's account(i)Treatment of depositFor purposes of this section, a deposit of debt proceeds in an account is treated as an investment expenditure, and amounts held in an account (whether or not interest bearing) are treated as property held for investment.

"The $13,168.84 figure is calculated as follows: $18,000 assessed value x 3.23 date of death CLR = $58,140 property value x 15% collateral tax rate as the property went to the unrelated LLC. = $8,721.00 tax liability.