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11 February 2025 | 12 replies
As a starting point: -If they work full time and make $700k a year -Don't want to or can't spend time self managing a short-term rental -Don't have a spouse who wants to take the lead on managing the rentals They are likely not going to directly reduce their taxable income with real estate year-to-year.
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14 February 2025 | 4 replies
Hi everyone. My wife and I bought a single family house in Texas a few years ago. Since then my wife and I have been getting calls from people about wanting to buy this house. They've even called my mom who we don't l...
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18 January 2025 | 5 replies
- Run a cost segregation study on this property in 2024 and you might have $100k on line 18...Without diving too deep on this post - If you run this scenario as a real estate professional while materially participating in the property, You'll be able to reduce your's and your spouses taxable income that year...
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14 February 2025 | 12 replies
This eliminates ALL the interest on that property, and uses the monthly payments you were making on it to help reduce the debt on the other quicker.
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16 February 2025 | 10 replies
•Beyond that, flood insurance adds to a buyer’s monthly expenses, which can affect their debt-to-income (DTI) ratio and reduce their overall purchasing power.
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16 February 2025 | 7 replies
Quote from @Kishan Purohit: @Heath D WallaceTo get this deal to cash flow, you could look into increasing the rent if the market allows or reducing operating expenses, such as lowering management fees, vacancy rates, or insurance costs.
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18 February 2025 | 7 replies
It (2%) technically would be coming from the seller by reducing the 5% to 3% and then you get a closing cost credit for 2% at COE.
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18 February 2025 | 9 replies
But here are ways to reduce capital gains taxes:Deduct expenses (renovation, selling costs) in 2024 to offset gains.Hold for 1+ year to qualify for lower long-term capital gains tax rates.Invest in a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) to defer taxes.Use tax-loss harvesting to offset gains with investment losses.Pushing 2024 deductions to 2025 won’t help much with 2024 capital gains.
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16 February 2025 | 11 replies
Novations open up the MLS and conventional financing, bringing in a larger pool of buyers and reducing competition from other wholesalers.5.
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7 February 2025 | 0 replies
Since then, they have operated under government control, but privatization has been a recurring topic of debate.Why Privatization is Being ConsideredSecretary Turner, along with some policymakers and industry leaders, argues that privatizing the GSEs could reduce taxpayer exposure, increase market efficiency, and encourage more private sector participation in mortgage lending.