During the first week of the month, like most landlords, I'm tasked with collecting rent, paying bills and utilities, and as always, looking for more property to acquire.

I have never expensed lunch when i'm out and ...

Many of you know I've written on Medical Office Space. After our lender had a stroke, we've been trying to figure out a way to fund a medical office project in Fullerton. I wrote a blog post some time back titled, ...

So I am thinking about selling shares (in the future) of a vacation rental property I intend to buy very soon. I am wondering what the tax implications of this are? I intend to hold it in an LLC in the first place and...

I recently bought and moved into a foreclosed home to renovate and flip.  We are 90% finished and will be listing the property for sale this fall.  Was a challenge to live through this procedure with a 3 year old and ...

I bought a property with a family member (son) and want to put it just in the sons nameWe bought it in 2016 as Joint tenancy.  For him to get loan I put my name on property, but he made all the payments for the proper...

So I have seen a few posts recently with people saying it is not a good idea to work to pay off your loans quicker. The argument is that you will lose the interest deduction therefor will need to pay additional ta...

I own a SF investment home that appreciated in value quite a bit. My current return on equity is quite low so I want to cash out and invest into a bigger property with much better ROE using 1031 exchange. The problem ...

I am trying to help a previous client avoid a healthy capital gains bill on the sale of their primary residence.  Trying not to spell it out to them directly though out of concern of giving tax advice outside of my sc...

There was a thread on the board by @Nancy Neville on the general topic of 1099misc.  Apparently it got zapped somehow by the moderators as I can't now find it anymore.  I do have a side-question related to that topic ...

Having a hard time finding a good insurance broker. Often times when I'm analyzing a potential deal, I need to know the numbers for both hazard and flood insurance fast. How have you been able to find good brokers t...