Alex Morstadt
Mortgage Note Accounting
Hello CPAs! I am struggling to get a definitive answer to the question - are payments from a Performing Note passive investment income or are they ordinary income? I have seen it described as both - and lets face it, ...
Mark Updegraff
S Corp Business deductions for Real Property / Investing?, please help!
Hello & Thanks to the BP Community! You guys are truly the BEST!
I don't see why this would be an issue, but I'll throw it out before calling my CPA tomorrow.
If an S-Cor...
Scott Woodard
New investor question
Hello, new member here with a question about financing a flip. I'm giving myself a year to build my credit, save some money, and finish my personal home flip before I purchase my first investment property and tryin...
Alexander Timberlake
Buy & Hold Vs Fix and Flip Markets
I recently heard something that brought an idea I was thinking about to the surface. I heard that (in general) it is bad to look for buy & hold properties in neighborhoods that are hot "fix and flip" neighborhoods...
Tom A.
Newbie at the Courthouse
Hey all, I find myself looking into a foreclosure auction at the courthouse. I know it sounds very dangerous for a newbie to start with a foreclosure. So I have been reading every topic about foreclosures and trying t...
Christopher D.
Leasehold Improvement Exchange
Hi BP community,I own a condo/townhouse in a San Diego beach town that has appreciated significantly since I bought it in early 2013. I would like to cash out the significant amount of equity in it to remodel my prim...
Marc Globensky
Any ideas on how to invest 20k?
Hey everyone,I'm an investor in real estate and some how at a loss for what to do with 20k... Lol this is more or less my emergency savings I've spent last 2 years saving and working 60 plus hours to get put up. I've ...
Vesna Marcina
Condo purchase in Mammoth Lakes, CA
Hi everyone:
I visited Mammoth Lakes last week and viewed a couple of condos. The realtor I worked with, though, is not particularly communicative, and I think I will have to tell her that I am going to find another ...
Shafi Noss
Syndication: How Valuable is the Time Value of Money?
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get a sense for just how valuable tax deferment through depreciation is to the multifamily passive investor. Suppose passive investor Isabel invests 100k in a syndication. The syndicat...
Chris Martin
Simple depreciation explaination
This was taken from a PM to a colleague.... After writing it up, I figured I'd put it here for your entertainment;) About the tax comment in my post...This is a simple example. The numbers are to show the point. Don't...