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18 April 2024 | 4 replies
This deduction can offset the income generated by the property, potentially reducing it to a tax-neutral position.For those with full-time jobs, the challenge lies in the IRS designation of "real estate professional," which has specific hour requirements that must be met to take full advantage of these deductions against ordinary income.
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18 April 2024 | 3 replies
While this may exempt it from being classified as a rental activity, active participation remains a requirement, necessitating compliance with three tests: spending 500 hours on the property, dedicating at least 100 hours (and more than any other participant), and performing all the necessary work needed.Additionally, long-term viability and consideration of depreciation recapture are important concerns.
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18 April 2024 | 8 replies
Other loan programs don't have home ownership requirement.
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19 April 2024 | 13 replies
The only possible workaround is likely super low LTV (like sub 50) or if its a purchase and basically zero things that would be required to not do SRO if they chose to do a vanilla LTR
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17 April 2024 | 22 replies
So I require all of my sponsors at this stage to have at least full real estate cycle experience with little or no investor money lost (and the more cycles the better).
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18 April 2024 | 2 replies
We also require initial payments to be made in good funds for rent and security deposit, which helps to solve a lot of the asset verification.
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18 April 2024 | 28 replies
Required by Law, a Title I have for my Vehicle along with Automobile Insurance.
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18 April 2024 | 1 reply
The key highlights of this slate of bills includesAdditional Excise Tax on STRCreation of a statewide STR registryStandardize safety requirements across the stateProtect the ability for local government to zone STR in accordance with their needsThis isn't the first attempt at statewide regulation, and its clear the bills as written would be operationally burdensome to put into place for the state (aka, expensive) and the problems they are trying to solve are not, in all, a result of STR in our communities but of bad tax laws already in existence.
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18 April 2024 | 7 replies
I'm not sure what laws you think are unclear, but the loan requires occupancy within 60 days.
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18 April 2024 | 2 replies
I setup an LLC for my purposes of renting my first home and I am wondering if I need to transfer my mortgage / title of my first home into my LLCs name instead of my wife and my personal names. (1) Is it required for me to transfer the ownership of my first home to my new LLC?