If you have the time, give me a ring, I was just down to Bacalar on a visit to some lake front property down there, and then made a trip out to Campeche....

I worked for a CPA firm for years, so know how it is.Even though you didn'f find something good this trip, you still accomplished a lot and made some contacts, so that's good.Your post gave me a brainstorm!

Otherwise, you’d just plan accordingly and add 10 or 15 minutes of travel time to your trip.”But in terms of the economic impact, Glass said the detrimental effects during the construction period were lessened by the clear evidence that work was finally being done.

Their job would end at calling in someone to deal with the problem.In this particular case, something caused that breaker to trip.

You would have to have a business reason for them to eat at work.These all are considered office expense. 100%Meals deduction is when YOU go out on a business trip and eating. 50%Meals deduction is when you go out for lunch or dinner to discuss business. 50%Meals and Entertainment is usually together which is 50%.Hope that helps.

In TX we have this lovely new LLC called a series LLC so it lets a mom and pop get some of the benefits of the multiple company structure for the cost of one tax return and one trip to the lawyer's office.

Lance - she said there is no place on my personal return to put mileage costs associated with trips I make to look at new properties (i.e., ones that I do not own) that I am interested in possibly purchasing.  

@Shannon Shue This is an older thread but I wanted to see how your trip to Birmingham went last year.  

I always time it in combination with a family trip and then I can write the whole trip off as a business expense.

Do what he described with the full "intention" of living there but hey if you have to go back out of state to visit family or do some business trips out of Vegas, that's fine too