Costs Less: FHA loans have competitive interest rates because the Federal government insures the loans.

Yes, these things are exactly what I want to avoid, IE. any kind of taxable event!

I guess you either love searching and learning or you don't.Right now I am reading through the text version of the U.S Federal code of statutes.I am on title 6.

Quoting from the landlordwiki:"the city will ultimately lose a case on the fair housing aspect of this as the federal courts have repeatedly said family status based occupancy ordinances are illegal.

From what I read federal and most, not all, state laws favor keeping company's alive especially with employees.

i have a friend who needs to borrow $10k and will give me a percentage of profits($25,000) from sale of piece of property, which should be in 4 months. i will have property as collateral.we want to keep it as a loan, as opposed to buying into his partnership, so as to not bring about any taxable situations, but i am a little worried about usury laws.i would love any ideas on the best way to do this to protect us both.

I was hoping to buy it directly in my name but I was also told that my global income would become taxable in the US.

If you haven't already called every single local/regional bank/savings bank/credit union in your region, then you haven't looked hard enough yet.As Eric said, you need to manage your reported taxable income very carefully, and need to always know where your DTI stands, and what is the status of your lender profile.

In the leveraged case, we have $12,000 of depreciation lowering our taxable part to $5,760.

But there is a federal website that helps to determine cost effectiveness of heating fuel source:http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/experts/heatcalc.xlshttp://www.eia.gov/