Matthew Hicks
Question on capital gains treatment
Hi everyone. I have a home that I purchased in 2010 for 25k. I'm just now renovating it and it will be finished in a month. If I sell it in 2013, will it qualify for short or long term capital gains? I've owned th...
Matthew Ries
How do you convince an owner to sell?
I've been following the forum for the last few months. I have been looking to make the jump from SFRs to MF and researching and analyzing "potential" deals very diligently.I have found what I would consider "a perfec...
Matthew Ryan
Do you agree with these probabilities for landing an investor?
I've been building my investor database, and within that, I've created an Investor Pipeline that associates each investor into a stage of our communication, in addition to an assigned probability for landing that inve...
Corey Demuth
landlord taxes - help me understand the benefits please!
I keep reading about how there are so many benefits to being a landlord, because you can reduce your income taxes and such...
Can anyone please explain how it works? Like a basic overview? I have heard people talk ab...
Account Closed
Creative Real Estate Entrepreneurs
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other l...
Nadeem Arshad
Apartment complex with mostly studios
Hello all,
I recently came up across a small apartment complex (4 buildings, total of 22 units) which would be part of a 1031 exchange from a previously sold retail plaza. The potential downside is that most of the...
Linda Miller
Need advice about my inherited home-Washington, DC
I inherited my home of 60yrs and it is a total gut to the studs/$200,000 job. I have a contractor but need an architect who will do what I want, not what they want done to my asset. I live there in a beautiful habita...
Bryan Dumesnil
Questions That I Should Ask a Possible Mentor
Hello everyone,I recently discovered that an individual that I know personally from performing music is in the business of flipping houses. He is a contractor so he is pretty much active in almost the entire flipping ...
Jared Sandler
Important questions for a Hard Money Lender!
After finding an HML that will lend where your prospect house is (most will only lend in major metro areas or have steeper rates if they do lend outside metro areas), I would ask these questions:
Are you a direct len...
Dustin Garrels
Multifamily with only 1 bedroom units
Are there any unique considerations for a multifamily property with only 1 bedroom units?