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30 November 2017 | 6 replies
Reviews go a long way.If this is a rental, are you going to charge a monthly access fee for the solar in addition to rent, and let them handle the utility bill, or are you going to cover all utilities?
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30 November 2017 | 14 replies
The safe harbor applies to amounts paid during the tax year to acquire or produce what the regs call a “unit of property” (UOP), you must meet these requirements: (1) at the beginning of the tax year, the taxpayer has written accounting procedures treating as an expense for non-tax purposes amounts paid for property costing less than a specified dollar amount (which will be 2500 for you), or with an economic useful life of 12 months or less;.(2) the taxpayer treats the amount paid for the property as an expense on its books and records in accordance with its accounting procedures. ( do this on your bookkeeping software or whatever you utilize)(3) the amount paid for the UOP doesn't exceed $2,500. as substantiated by invoice.Note: The cost for the Unit of Property includes additional costs (for example, delivery fees, installation services, or similar costs) if these additional costs are included on the same invoice with the tangible property.Eg:A purchases 100 printers at $500 each for a total cost of $500,000 as indicated by the invoice.
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21 November 2017 | 3 replies
Refinances usually cost about 1% plus however many points the bank charges (usually between 0 and 1, each point is a 1% fee).
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21 November 2017 | 1 reply
Does the price typically depend on the sale price or are you seeing a flat fee approach regardless of deal size?
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23 November 2017 | 7 replies
@Jose Quintanathe hardest part about flipping now is finding the property that you can buy for enough of a discount to make money after all the repairs, commissions and lender fees.
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22 November 2017 | 6 replies
The asking price for the property is $135,000 and it is possible to make purchase price $140k and with VA funding fee rolled into the mortgage, it'll be over $144k.However, I don't want to overpay for the property and submitted an offer of $125k with seller paying all closing costs up to $5k.
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13 December 2017 | 2 replies
Here is the exact scenario I'm facing right now on some vacant land I'm buying.Purchase price $65,000Additional cost (closing fees, easement, county fees, pizza party, etc)
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2 December 2017 | 3 replies
You also pay annual fees, attend continued education classes, etc.I would caution you however, that you should instead offer a different approach.
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22 November 2017 | 1 reply
Originally I was going to get my medical insurance under my LLC, but had employees, and I found out if I got health insurance for myself, I have to make it available to all my employees.Each entity has fees to pay aside from taxes.
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28 November 2017 | 16 replies
No matter what a lender tells you, there is no such thing as no closing costs.The question is, who pays the closing costs.Traditionally, on a par rate loan, you will pay lender fees and title fees for a refinance.