Do you have a regular job or do you want to do real estate full time??

Hi Natasha,I found the best way to become comfortable talking with homeowners.sellers is to talk to a LOT of them in a short period of time.The very best way---no kidding---is to do direct mailings to them regularly and you will get calls.

(I modified it some…) I took the Guru references out of it…- Join your local REIA, attend regularly and talk to the people there (~$150 - $200/year) - Take some friendly local buyers, attorneys, realtors, wholesalers out to lunch/dinner/drinks ($50 per "date") - Buy some good RE investing books (can find references on this site) ($5 - $20 each, used or new on Amazon)"Seek and

The losses do not enter into the passive activity computation and should not be entered on Form 8582.[14]"if you have a paid-for regular rental property that is now making you pay income taxes on the rental profit, you can purchase a tax-shelter - (vacation rental) which will allow you to offset rental profit from another property with rental loss on the vacation property. that 'll do you a tremendous tax favorable treatment if your vacation property is not cash-flow positive. just thinking....

From what I've read about his out of state buying, he regularly meets/exceeds the 2% rule in his purchasing so I'm guessing he'll absorb these cuts and be fine.

Those 3 are my regular books I read pretty consistently on a monthly basis.

The way I understand it, a regular LLC in Illinois: $500 setup Articles of Organization, $250 annual fee, all properties within LLC are vulnerable to the others.

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I'm not certain how many you regularly frequent, but if you save those forums that you regularly visit, then click the Favorite Categories dropdown, you can see when the last post was made on all of your favorite forums all at once instead of having to click around to find out.4 - I'm not certain what you're getting into here, but as we predicted, there has been more activity on the forums since the launch.

Here's what you need to do: - Find well-run companies, - Evaluate their industries to see if the industry has good long term prospects, - Evaluate management to see if it has a shareholder-friendly culture, - Evaluate the competition and easy of entry, - Monitor the company's progress regularly, - Do a simple company valuation every year so that you always know how much the stock is worth, - Make a list of all such companies that you like and their current worth per share, - Then wait.