Help: Trying to reduce Capital Gains exposure!!!!!!!!!

Thanks.Michael Haltman, PresidentCommercial Capital Alliance/Exeter Commercial

If you have the capital (money) to do it, then there's nothing stopping you from owning property in the United States.

By far the majority of us worked hard for our money and saved to get that working capital.

I was wondering if anyone can give some input on Capitalization Rates. how do you determine your area rate.

But the hard part is I want to live in a nice area and nice areas tend to be much harder to get positive cash flow (assuming I imagine I'm paying myself normalized rent prices for that area).If cash flow is so important, which it is to me since I'm basically trying to build up capital for future investments, maybe it's better if I rent some place cheap with friends and buy a less expensive property in an area I don't want to live (really south when I'm trying to stay closer north).

You should run yourself like a business....So, my thoughts would be the same as any small business.1, Do I have enough capital to ride the storms.2, Have I properly planned for the storms.Real Estate is a cyclical market, Know where you are in the cycle and adapt!!

Some lenders that do 2nds dont even report the loans to the credit reporting agencies, like Residential Capital, who specializes in hard money 2nds.

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if buyer and seller agree to an increased sales price to assist the buyer with his closing costs, doesn't the seller wind up paying more capital gains on the increase?